: the act or an instance of producing a prolonged, high-pitched sound (such as a cry of distress or pain)
the whining of a dog
… that night she heard a whining and scratching at her door, and when she opened it the lame puppy, drenched and shivering, jumped up on her with little sobbing barks. Edith Wharton
2
: the act or activity of complaining in an annoyingly childish or petulant manner
Mom hates whining. Ruth Kelley
… but his public whining ("I'm sick and tired of it") didn't do him much good … Elizabeth Drew
But "people have begun to come out of that—they're tired of the whining," [J. Walker] Smith says. Leslie Miller