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What is the difference between grumble and gripe and grouse and whinge ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between grumble and gripe and grouse and whinge ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Grumble -- Make a low noise of dissent.
Gripe -- Complain.
Grouse -- Complain, possibly in an annoying way.
Whine -- Complain annoyingly and without a good reason (possibly in a high pitch, like a child).
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I've never heard of 'whinge'. Maybe, somewhere over the rainbow, someone has said that before.
But they didn't tell me. ;P
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Yep, children whinge like whine, but longer.
For example. The children whinged all the way to London. It was so annoying. (Maybe like grouse for Americans)
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