What's the difference between whinny and whiny?

Whinny


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
  • (n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.
  • (a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
  • (2) Bird's character, the sane one, is plopped into the middle of this queer ensemble to whinny and writhe.
  • (3) So stop pretending to be all excited about them now, you whinnying berk.
  • (4) When confronted by their mirror images, two animals increased their number of vocalizations, which included "whinny" sounds, barks, buzzing, and varying patterns of click trains.
  • (5) He had little to offer to the fast-maturing sound film, but he bawled and whinnied for a while over the equally adolescent radio networks.

Whiny


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No doubt the Scouser's legendary sense of humour will result in you getting no whiny emails about it whatsoever" - Chris Threlfall.
  • (2) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
  • (3) Is it good, emotive fare, or whiny, offensive, Coldplay-lite twaddle sung by the least convincing frontman since Jason Lee starting cultivating a pineapple?
  • (4) I know that sounds weird and whiny, but it's true."
  • (5) He adores his job – and can't stand whiny actors If there is one things I object to it’s actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
  • (6) One commentator has called them “Generation Y-ny [whiny]”, another common epithet is Generation Me, though Time magazine didn’t think this quite captured the self-obsession of the generation and beefed it up to Generation Me, Me, Me as the headline of their feature on them.
  • (7) At first glance Pigeon is selfish and whiny, manipulative ... but if you read the pigeon with love, we will see that the pigeon actually gives us clues about how to be persuasive, kind, adventurous, and assertive.
  • (8) Updated at 3.55pm GMT 3.22pm GMT NRA head Wayne LaPierre gets a standing ovation before delivering his whiny baby rant about how everyone in Washington is mean to him, all because he runs a little ho-hum national gun manufacturers' lobby.
  • (9) Despite all this, whiny, pathetic “progressives” grew enraged that Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders, who had largely been mum on race until he’s been forced to confront it this year by Black Lives Matter, was interrupted in Oregon by black activists.
  • (10) By this point, his career is taking off, but hers is not; she would never be recognised as the gifted, spectacularly whiny poet that she was until after her death.
  • (11) Perhaps a moratorium on comments such as "You're an idiot" or "I can't trust you with anything" or the word "Daaaad" pronounced in a whiny and generally antagonistic fashion.
  • (12) It would have been a great speech—I was going to tell you how to look at your own sometimes whiny, narcissistic self with love and actually find your best selves underneath all that fragility.
  • (13) It feels petty and whiny to say “I don’t like them” when they can stop the spread of disease, but sex with them … well, it’s not really sex.

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