4 example sentences using whin.
Whin used in a sentence
Whin in a sentence as a noun
> Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot.
If someone says their name is "Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel" for the love of your own sanity, don't try to figure out which part counts as the surname." Mister...
Political appointees' careers are even more dependent on the whin of their superiors than career civil servants.
What th' Czar whispered to th' Imp'ror Willum whin they were alone, how to make a silk hat out iv a wire matthress, how to settle th' coal sthrike, who to marry, how to get on with ye'er wife whin ye're married, what to feed th' babies, what doctor to call whin ye've fed thim as directed,--all iv that ye'll find in th' pa-apers." Dated 1893.
Whin definitions
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
See also: woodwaxen dyer's-broom dyeweed greenweed woadwaxen
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
See also: whinstone