What's the difference between whiner and whinger?

Whiner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, whines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This prompted a number of articles with headlines such as “Science proves gluten sensitivity isn’t real, people are just whiners” .
  • (2) Maybe a peacock or a whiner could have muscled the banks into taking haircuts on AIG contracts.
  • (3) Similarly, here's his hiring policy: “no jerks, no peacocks, no whiners".
  • (4) A substance that could “integrate shirkers, malingerers, defeatists and whiners” into the labour market might even be sanctioned.

Whinger


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And in this seething, darkened bearpit, the night belonged to Campbell and Nevin, not the objectors and whingers off stage, with their agendas and their microphones.
  • (2) A few weeks later, he was grilled on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman: who was he to advocate revolution, a here-today, gone-tomorrow comedian, an apathetic whinger who couldn’t even be arsed to exercise his democratic right, a “very trivial man” who believed in nothing?
  • (3) I listened for a conversation I could handle and honed in on a stray whinger, a guy complaining that his festival badge couldn’t check the weather.
  • (4) As for the MBM whingers, why spoil someone else's fun?
  • (5) And boy did you enjoy filling in our Official Whingers Form™ to tell us your woes.
  • (6) You know, the ones who boast about pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and can’t stand whingers and wimps?
  • (7) The Poles and the Italians were the main whingers at the summit.
  • (8) "Because it's long-winded, and whingeing, and nobody wants to hear a whinger."
  • (9) Stories saying that teachers are facing feral youth in the classroom, that they don’t have enough control – or stories saying they’re whingers if they’re raising issues - those debates actively make teaching sound unattractive,” says Ryan.

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