[f. prec. + -ER1.] One who whimpers.

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1737.  Ozell, Rabelais, II. vii. 66, note. Marmiteux, a Whimperer.

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a. 1739.  Jarvis, Don Quix., I. i. (1742), I. 3. No finical gentleman, nor such a whimperer as his brother.

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1841.  Emerson, Ess., Ser. I. ii. 75. We are become timorous, desponding whimperers.

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1863.  ‘Holme Lee,’ A. Warleigh, III. 241. When her wee whimperer would allow any voice but his own to be heard.

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