different between sob vs whinge

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /s?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

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Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.

   • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

• sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sob/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• winge (archaic)
• quhynge (Scotland, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whinsen, from Old English hwinsian (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwinis?n (“to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hw?nan (“to whine”), from Proto-Indo-European *?wey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with German winseln (“to whine, whimper”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: (h)w?nj, (h)w?nZH, IPA^(key): /(h)w?n(d)?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Verb

whinge (third-person singular simple present whinges, present participle whingeing or whinging, simple past and past participle whinged)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
   • 2012, John Lyons, The Australian, 1st Dec issue, Action stations as sea giants stay vigilant on the frontline

     "You know the problem these days with young people? Get them to carry a 500-pound bomb and within 30 seconds they're making noises," he says, imitating a whingeing sound.

Noun

whinge (plural whinges)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) A cry.

   Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) A peevish complaint.

   I know you don't like it, but your whinges won't solve the problem!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:complain

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• A relevant page from Understanding cultures through their key words, Anna Wierzbicka.
• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 461

Anagrams

• hewing