whin
Gorse; furze.
Genista tinctori · Irish gorse · Ulex europaeus · dyer's greenweed · dyer's-broom · dyeweed · furze · gorse · greenweed · whinstone · woadwaxen · woodwaxen
Gorse; furze.
Genista tinctori · Irish gorse · Ulex europaeus · dyer's greenweed · dyer's-broom · dyeweed · furze · gorse · greenweed · whinstone · woadwaxen · woodwaxen
Viccinium myrtillus · bilberry · blaeberry · whortleberry
ETYM So called because it frequents whins.
Brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows; SYN. Saxicola rubetra.
1. A prolonged high-pitched cry usually expressive of distress or pain
2. A sound resembling such a cry
3. A complaint uttered with or as if with a whine
(Homonym: wine).
1. To complain whiningly; SYN. grizzle, yammer, yawp.
2. To move with a whining sound.
A person given to excessive complaints and crying; SYN. complainer, moaner, sniveler, crybaby, bellyacher, grumbler, squawker.
bellyacher · complainer · crybaby · grumbler · moaner · sniveller · squawke
Long and high-pitched like a whine or plaintive crying.
complaining · complaintive · fretful · noisy · querulous · whiney · whiny