Whimwham: Definition and part of speech

Whimwham

  1. n. A whim, or whimsey; a freak.
  2. n. A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Whimper: Definition and part of speech

Whimper

  1. n. A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief.
  2. v. i. To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
  3. v. t. To utter in alow, whining tone.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.