What's the difference between girn and whinge?

Girn


Definition:

  • (n.) To grin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Girns declined over time when infants were united with the male.
  • (2) Infants girned more when with mothers or the male than when alone.
  • (3) Girns were given to both mothers and males, but more were given to mothers.
  • (4) Coos and girns are both affiliative vocalizations but are differentially modulated as infants cease cooing when they receive contact comfort.

Whinge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To whine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • (2) "Don't know what you are whinging about, I live in Reading, which has to be worse than London," writes a not-wrong Anton Lawrence.
  • (3) Controversies such as #Gamergate showed these crybabies that not only were people willing to listen to their performative whingeing, but positively indulge it.
  • (4) The whingeing begins as soon as they are free to speak.
  • (5) In the interests of full disclosure – and exhibitionism – I ruined the first time my boyfriend tried to ask me to marry him by spending a full evening whingeing about someone I was arguing with on Twitter.
  • (6) Business may whinge about legislation, and lobby furiously against it, but in the end - as in the case of Labour's windfall tax - they tend to submit when faced with determined legislators, especially when backed by public opinion.
  • (7) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
  • (8) "Between your moaning about early mornings and Dan Rookwood's RSI whingeing," notes Dave Holme, "anyone would think you had a tough job.
  • (9) Men who might once have faced lions for their faith are whinging about ridicule.
  • (10) It could be about vajazzling or threesomes or blowjobs; it could contain sex and therefore lighten the load of having to read a whinge.
  • (11) 49ers 6-0 Packers, 2:17, 1st quarter GB's D shows life, they bring down Kaepernick, contain Gore and then on third down, the Niners QB can't find Crabtree who is falling back into the endzone and whinging for a hold.
  • (12) Sir John Chilcot and his team should therefore cease whingeing about media attacks, set dates for the publication of their report and a deadline by which final comments should be received, and stick to that timetable irrespective of further complaints about wording from those to be criticised.
  • (13) The foreign secretary's Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, fuelled the row when he accused business of "whingeing".
  • (14) Eamonn Maloney objects: ""The IC" sounds like a province of California full of rich kids who whinge too much.
  • (15) His whinge in the column following the sentencing of the Facebook fools concerned the Notting Hill carnival (he's got a flat there).
  • (16) If you take this tool and embrace it rather than whinge, it’s amazing what you can do.
  • (17) But, as Perth coach Alistair Edwards commented after the match, “both squads have great character, you don’t see us whinging about all the travelling”.
  • (18) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
  • (19) I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it’s time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective whinge-o-rama that seems to be going on in some places,” he said.
  • (20) We know, because Shakespeare wrote it into the scripts, moreover as a whinge, that the however-many-hours-traffic of the original stage ended with a jig .