pule

Noun (1)

pule (plural pules)

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

Verb

pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)

1. (intransitive) 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;[…]1898, The Ludgate Monthly, page 13
2. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
3. (snow, etc) 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[,][…]2006 06, Dan Skelton, The Human Element, Dan Skelton, →ISBN, page 123
   • ... 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[…]2007 March 5, Kresley Cole, The Price of Pleasure, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈpuːleɪ/

pule (uncountable)

1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.