[f. prec. vb. + -ING2.] That whimpers, in various senses.
1598. E. Guilpin, Skial. (1878), 29. Their whimpring Sonnets, puling Elegies Slaunder the Muses.
1622. Massinger & Dekker, Virg. Mart., II. i. Our whimpring Lady and Mistresse sent mee.
1648. Herrick, Hesp., To Primroses fill’d with Morning Dew, ii. Speak, whimp’ring Younglings, and make known The reason, why Ye droop, and weep.
1735. R. Savage, Progr. Divine, Wks. 1777, II. 121. Be yours the blubb’ring lip, and whimp’ring eye!
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxiv. With heads erect, and whimpering cry, The hounds behind their passage ply.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk., Mme. Sand. Any one can see why Rousseau should be such a whimpering reformer.
1879. Browning, Ivan Ivanovitch, 205. The whimperingest cub that ever squeezed the teat!
Hence Whimperingly adv.
1878. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 157. He would suddenly break away and begin whimperingly to commiserate the poor.
