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Pule definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PULE, v.i. [L. pello.]
1. To cry like a chicken.
2. To whine; to cry as a complaining child; to whimper.
To speak puling like a beggar at halimass.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cry weakly or softly; "she wailed with pain" [syn: wail, whimper, mewl, pule]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (puled; puling) Etymology: probably imitative Date: 1534 whine, whimper

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. literary cry querulously or weakly; whine, whimper. Etymology: 16th c.: prob. imit.: cf. F piauler

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Whine, whimper, cry, snivel.

Moby Thesaurus

bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, call, caterwaul, cry, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whimper, whine, whinny, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl