whinging
Grant White
ulgw at dewey.newcastle.edu.au
Wed Mar 20 19:01:35 CST 1996
Really? I always thought that "whinging" was Australian colloquial for
whine. Hence the term "pommy whinger" or "whinging barstard".
Grant (on a whinge and a prayer)
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On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Bruce Appelbaum wrote:
> If you'd ever met my ex-wife, you'd know it was a real word.
>
> It is a "Britishism."
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> Subject: whinging
> Author: ChrisO at fieldschool.com at Internet
> Date: 3/20/96 8:57 AM
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> Date 3/20/96
> Subject whinging
> From ChrisO
> To pynchon list
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> whinging
> more fuel for the fire of IJ obsession:
>
> Is "whinge" really a word?
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> chris o.
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