Pule
[pju:l]
Definition
(v. i.) To cry like a chicken.
(v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
Checker: Rita
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Whine, whimper, cry.
Editor: Zeke
Definition
v.i. to pipe or chirp: to cry whimper or whine like a child.—ns. Pū′ler; Pū′ling the cry as of a chicken: a kind of whine.—adj. whimpering: whining.—adv. Pū′lingly.
Edited by Hardy
Examples
- A while since that sufficed to keep her handsome and cheery, and there she sits now a poor, little, pale, puling chit enough. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He will sow his wild oats, she would say, and is worth far more than that puling hypocrite of a brother of his. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This was the man who had been the main instrument in forcing his sister to wed me; well knowing that her heart was given to that puling boy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even now, there was only that puling, sickly Pitt Crawley between Rawdon and a baronetcy; and should anything happen to the former, all would be well. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Sharon