whine
意味
- 〈サイレン・子供・犬などが〉悲しそうな声を立てる,鼻を鳴らす
- 泣き言を言う,ぐちをこぼす,だだをこねる
- …を哀れっぽい声で言う,だだをこねる;〈…である〉と哀れっぽく言う《+that 節》
- すすり泣き,クンクン(ピーピー)いう声
- 泣き言
例文
I don't want to listen to your whining anymore.
泣き言なんか、もう聞きたくないわ。
I don't like my cousin. All he does is whine.
いとこが好きじゃない。いつも駄々をこねるから。
The jet made a whining sound as it soared overhead.
上空をジェット機がキーンという音を立てて飛んでいった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)).