whimper
verb (used without object)
to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
whimperer
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a word derived from
whimper.
Example Sentences
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Miss Tabby is our housekeeper; the best creature, but the greatest whimperer in existence.
From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
What a cowardly whimperer that other Rector was!
From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Arthur Livingston
Dowson was, let us say not mockingly, the boyish whimperer in song.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
He felt that he was within an ace of a panic, and not so far, after all, from that whimperer his neighbour.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Man who tames the lion, harnesses the winds, makes a whimperer of steam and cowers the lightning—this same vainglorious, triumphant man is simply helpless in the presence of a woman's tears!
From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell
