Puling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puling \Pul"ing\, n.
     A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
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           Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puling \Pul"ing\, a.
     Whimpering; whining; childish.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
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              It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule.
                                                    --Barrow.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "puling":
     Jeremianic, bawling, blatant, complaining, crying, faultfinding,
     fretful, howling, lamentive, lowing, moanful, mournful, mugient,
     peevish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, querulous, sorrowful,
     ululant, wailful, wailing, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny