complain king

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complain king (plural complain kings)

(Singapore, colloquial) A dissatisfied male who always grumbles or rants, and reports on others’ faults usually to someone in authority or the media, with or without ill intentions.
- 2015 August 9, “Complain Kings – Icons of SG”, in SG50‎^[1], retrieved 23 October 2017:
  These days, local online portals have become complaint hotspots that aggregate the ‘word on the street’, from the mouths of Complain kings and queens themselves.
- 2015 October 7, Joan C. Guyll, “Stories SG50 Icons of Singapore #37 – Complain King (Singapore)”, in Sg Overseas Singaporean Unit‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 April 2018:
  Social conditioning being what it was, it wasn’t surprising that I also grew up as a complain king too.... However, we mustn’t join the complain kings…so what makes the Swiss so happy? They pay taxes, they have immigrant problems too.
- 2004 May 29, “'Are you a Complain King/Queen? – SgForums.com (Singapore)”, in SGFORUMS‎^[3], retrieved 23 October 2017:
  hoganrock: Who's the number 1 Complain King/Queen here? Are you a Complain King/Queen? What do you usually complain about?
- 2000 October 5, squig...@my-deja.com, “Are we really complain kings and queens?”, in soc.culture.singapore‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 1 November 2017:
  Are we really complain kings and queens? Some academic from New Zealand said that we are a nation of moaners in Straits Times. Sure, we complain about lots of stuff, but everyone does it, not just Singaporeans. I don't think it's fair. Besides what else can we do...its not easy living here...the prices are sky-rocketing, everything is expensive , from owning a box of space in the air to the cars on the streets, and the govt is not helping. And I don't think we moan, we are just giving feedback. Some people think we're being petty cos we have a good life. So should we just keep our dissatisfaction to ourselves? What's wrong with complaining any.

Related terms edit

complain queen (female equivalent)