Meaning

A plaintive melancholy whine..

Definitions by Sense

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.
2. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.
3. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
4. (of rain, snow, etc) To fall in a continuous, light dribble.
5. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

Example Sentences

Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.

... rain-drops over the puling baby she carried in her arms;[…]

... rain took even less time since fronts rolled through about every forty-eight hours. The first two opportunities he didn't even bother to check out since the low pressure systems had been puling little pissers[,] dropping spotty rainfall[,][…]

... rain fell, not merely spilling from the clouds, but pitched down to beat the earth. Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force. He almost longed for the puling rain of England instead of this assault[…]

... looked at the puling sky, face upturned to a mirr of rain.

Word Forms

• pules
• puling
• puled

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Use pule when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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