资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Whimper \Whim"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whimpered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Whimpering}.] [Cf. Scot. whimmer, G. wimmern.]
   To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to
   complain; as, a child whimpers.

         Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers
         that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him?
                                                  --Latimer.