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pule

verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpuːleɪ/ / /pjuːl/ / /pjʉl/

noun

  1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

verb

Etymology: From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).

  1. To whimper or whine.

    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;[…]

  2. To pipe or chirp.
  3. To fall in a continuous, light dribble.

    ... 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[…]