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Originally Posted by Catlady
Thanks. Seems like a pretty subtle difference. What I'm getting is that whinging would be closer to complaining in American English.
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It is a lot like complaining, but I think whinging is more futile. You might expect a response to a complaint, but probably not to a whinge. It's rhetorical complaining.
You'd complain to the hotel staff about the state of the room, but you'd whinge to your friends about it.
That's how it seems to me, anyway.
See also grumbling, moaning, griping, etc.