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Pule   Listen
verb
Pule  v. i.  (past & past part. puled; pres. part. puling)  
1.
To cry like a chicken.
2.
To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. "It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pule" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bibulus, and Furnius kind and true, With others whom, despite their sense and wit And friendly hearts, I purposely omit; Such I would have my critics; men to gain Whose smiles were pleasure, to forego them pain, Demetrius and Tigellius, off! go pule To the bare benches ...
— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace

... v.; voice &c (human) 580; hubbub; bark &c (animal) 412. vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint; lungs; stentor. V. cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak^, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal, squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup^. cheer; hoot; grumble, moan, groan. snore, snort; grunt &c (animal sounds) 412. vociferate; raise up the voice, lift up the voice; call out, sing out, cry out; exclaim; rend the air; thunder at the top of one's ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... has a masculine spirit, And wherefore should I pule, and, like a girl, Put finger in the eye? Let's be all toughness Without distinction ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury



Words linked to "Pule" :   mewl, weep



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