0 present participle of whimper
1 (especially of an animal) to make a series of small, weak sounds expressing pain or unhappiness:
The little dog was whimpering and crying because it was on a leash.
The anxieties expressed about those proposals should not be dismissed as the unnecessary whimpering of a few remaining wets.
Certain doubts have been expressed about the desirability of the hard ecu, or indeed the wet and whimpering ecu that sits in its basket.
The forlorn creature that shared the journey huddled whimpering in the back, her useless lower jaw hanging limp.
My father retired with pneumoconiosis, and the normal sound of his breathing is now sometimes like the whimpering of a baby, it is so bad.
Three days later, he returned and heard the dog whimpering.
