whimpering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of whimper

noun

1. The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.

   “And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.”

   “As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.”