v. Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 whinil, 7–9 whinnel. [app. f. WHINE v. + -LE.] intr. To whine, whimper. Hence Whindling vbl. sb.; Whindling ppl. a., weak, pining, puny; fig. trifling, petty. So Whindle sb., (a) a whining creature; (b) a low cry, a whine.
1601. Munday & Chettle, Death Earl of Huntington, I. iii. B 2 b. He keepes a paltry whinling girle, And will not bed, forsooth, before he bride.
1609. B. Jonson, Silent Wom., IV. v. (1620), L 2. The other a whiniling dastard.
1647. Trapp, Comm. 1 Thess. v. 16 Rejoice evermore] A duty … little practised by many of Gods whinnels, who are ever puling and putting finger in the eye.
1648. in Verney Mem. (1907), I. 397. [He had intended to go with her to coast, but … his wife’s] ‘whinnelling’ … [stopped him].
a. 1652. Brome, Damoiselle, II. i. Val. Wee’ll end the difference. Broo. By the Sword; no otherwise; No whinnelling satisfaction.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Whindle, a low or feigned Crying.
1709. Mem. Signor Rozelli (1725), 61. All the Women that were about her fell a howling and whinneling.
1728. [De Foe], Street-Robberies Consider’d, 10. Not liking my Situation, I [sc. an abandoned baby] began to Whindle, and Tune my Pipes.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Whindle, to whine as a child.
