endnote n.111: 'whinge'
Hal’s term, actually an Incandenza-family term, actually not inappropriate here because like most Incandenza-family terms put into family usage by Avril, who’s an expatriate Québecer, whinge is some east-Canadian idiom for vigorous high-pitched complaining, almost like whining except with a semantic tinge of legitimacy to the complaint.
Context
The whole of endnote 111, glossing "whinged" in scene 070's History-of-O.N.A.N. material. Avril doesn't just police the language outside the house — she stocks the family lexicon, and the endnote does careful semantic fieldwork on one of her imports: whinge vs. whine distinguished by "a semantic tinge of legitimacy." Prescriptivism's domestic face: the Moms as the source of the very words her sons complain in.