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Fri 1 Feb, 2008 01:31 am
in an informal context.
(seems i'm always asking this kind of questions. it's hard to get answers using other ways -- dictionary doesn't work. i find here very helpful).
thanks!
moaner
whinger
cry baby
bleater
groaner
Grouchy, grumbling, grousing bellyacher.
that is a lovely word, I must remember to use it; and so useful for Scrabble.
Better not use the Collins New English dictionary to adjudicate Clary.
Do you really play Scrabble?
by the way
the subject of your topic says " what is the word/phrase for a person who complains a lot?"
in this sentence, you have to use the word "alot" and not "a lot"
thanks mars90000000.
but i searched both oxford american dictionary and merriam-webster online.
neither of them had 'alot' as an entry. instead, webster has the following as examples.
"this is a lot nicer"
"runs a lot every day"
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/lot
after googling a bit, it seems to me that "alot" is frequently used nowadays in informal context. maybe it will appear in the dictionary ten years from now as an adverb. (together with "google" as a transitive/intransitive verb
"google" is already in the new dictionaries, but I've never seen "alot" as a single word in any context.
I love "whinger" but I think that's pretty Brit; my Aussie niece uses it very tellingly with that sort of eye-rolliing emphasis that teens and 20-somethings do so well. "Kvetch" is great too, but may be mostly Yiddish/New York/East Coast. Crab, grouch, grump, whiny old man/woman, whiner., (any one of several ethnic terms) princess.
Such a person would be urged to stop his yammering or to quit his belly aching.
wow. yes, "google" is already in both oxford and webster.
here is a random google finding about people's opinion on "alot" and "a lot".
http://blather.newdream.net/a/alot.html
and thanks to you all for your above answers.
miazhou wrote:wow. yes, "google" is already in both oxford and webster.
if u mean the word "google" being in the dictionnary then it totally makes sense because googol is a 1 with 100 zeroes after it
I kvetch even though I am from the west coast of the US and not of jewish heritage. Don't get me started...
In Australia, that would be a Pom, or for more emphasis, a whingeing Pom!
Or even a bloody whingeing Pom!!!
(A Pom is any refugee/visitor/migrant from England)
I hate to ask but I've wondered for a while...
how do you pronounce 'whinge'??
Like wine with an h? or whine with a hinge?
Blinks in wonder...
username wrote:....but I've never seen "alot" as a single word in any context.
Me either.
Most of the time...by far...I will type alot...then go back and put the space in, one of my bad habits that I can't seem to break.
In high school I asked one of my English teachers....how do you spell the word "alot"....she replied, you don't.
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Titty Baby.
erm???? I think 'a lot' is correct, even now... however forces propel phrases into being as a package.
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