Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plaintive piping, as of a chicken; a whining complaint.
  • Complaining; whining; crying; childish; weak.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
  • adjective Whimpering; whining; childish.

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  • verb Present participle of pule.

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  • "VOLUMNIA: Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,

    And so shall starve with feeding.--Come, let's go:

    Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,

    In anger, Juno-like."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009