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pule
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Audio Help [pyool] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object), puled, pul·ing.
| to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper. |
[Origin: 1525–35; perh. imit.
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puler, noun
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intr.v. puled, pul·ing, pules To whine; whimper. [Perhaps from French piauler, of imitative origin.] pul'er n. |
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| cry weakly or softly; "she wailed with pain" [syn: wail] |
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Pule
Pule\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puled; p. pr. & vb. n. Puling.] [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.]1. To cry like a chicken. --Bacon. 2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. --Barrow.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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