whimpering

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whimpering

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of whimper

noun whimperings

The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint. And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.

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@misc{whimpering_2026,
  title = {whimpering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whimpering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}