pule
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pjuːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /pjʉl/
- Rhymes: -uːl
Noun
[edit]pule (plural pules)
Verb
[edit]pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)
- (intransitive) To whimper or whine.
- Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
- (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
Translations
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- OED 2nd edition 1989
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule (uncountable)
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)
- (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]pule
- second-person singular imperative of pulir
- inflection of pular:
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]pule
- inflection of pulen:
Hawaiian
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule
Verb
[edit]pule
- (transitive) to pray
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule m
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule
- Alternative form of pilwe
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pu‧le
Verb
[edit]pule
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule
Usage notes
[edit]Although the plural form pule is that which would be found in a dictionary, puli and the other forms based on this plural form are more common.
Synonyms
[edit]Samoan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.
Noun
[edit]pule
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pule
- inflection of pulir:
Tongan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.
Noun
[edit]pule
- cowrie shell
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]pule
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- Rhymes:English/uːl
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- Rhymes:Italian/ule
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