Whin

Whin Meanings:

• Gorse; furze. See Furze
• Woad-waxed
• ___whinstone
• Homophone: win (accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.). 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
• “whin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• (Northern) Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)
• [slang] a win because of some reason which is at first undefined to the whinner, but then comes to light. In forum debate situations, both parties must at first be unaware of the reason(s) in order for the whin to be valid. See also: phail, whail
• [slang] A word used by chemical engineers when referring to "quasi techs" during an impotent internet tirade.
• [slang] What all the assholes say to eachother when they get happy.