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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
pule .
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Examples
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Men have perfected technology for garnering more power from less wind, installing large gears on larger blades for the sake of turning the turbine at a constant speed even in puling puffs of air.
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I say the Republicans deserve to be called puling country clubbers if they're not will to physically battle those who beat them again and again.
Latest Articles 2008
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What that's doing is kind of puling in the real world in a strange way. ...
From Inside the Box 2010
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The Culture Industry's corporations through the media (its music, its newspapers, its television channels, its plays and its films) increasingly suffocate the individual imagination through this so - called education and entertainment to provide the kind of puling, paralyzing resignation (room for the natural disasters of Haiti and Chile, none for the genocides of
Superfluities Redux 2010
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Once, when two little girls -- evidently the wharfinger's daughters -- went by, my hand reached out to the door to open it so that I might call to them and present them with the puling little wretch.
CHAPTER I 2010
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George comes here puling and whining about honest debate, but is scarcely able to say anything without immediately committing the most laughably grotesque sorts of Ignoratio Elenchi imaginable.
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It's just protocol to consider everyone before officially puling the trigger.
Dane Cook and the Jonas Brothers Auditioned for Captain America Roles? | /Film 2010
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I would note that the people at RealClimate are actual scientists working and publishing in the field, not puling wannabes and vicious lying ideologues such as Darnel goes down on — I mean “gets down” on.
Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’ 2010
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The pair are puling fast growth overseas, particularly in emerging markets.
Foreign-Sales Kick for Toys Maxwell Murphy 2011
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The Tea Party collectively is not extreme; it is too diverse/disorganized for that — its got loads of extremists puling it in loads of directions and the sum of these vectors is as of yet unkown
bilby commented on the word puling
"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