whimper
wim per
- n a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
- v cry weakly or softly
- Score that as follows: one imploding economy, one deteriorating war in an impossible region and two versions of Armageddon the bang of loose nukes and the whimper of .
- The elder Castro's exit barely registered in those cities; a half-century after he arrived on the world stage with a bang, Fidel left with a whimper.
- People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious .