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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plaintive piping, as of a chicken; a whining complaint.
  2. Complaining; whining; crying; childish; weak.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of pule.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
  2. adj. Whimpering; whining; childish.

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  • bilby "VOLUMNIA: Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
    And so shall starve with feeding.--Come, let's go:
    Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,
    In anger, Juno-like."
    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009

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