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Originally Posted by DrNefario
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. |
English has a lot of words for that kind of behavior.
Might serve as evidence that vocabulary does indeed s hape behavior.