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puling

[ pyoo-ling ]

adjective

  1. whining; whimpering:

    a puling child.



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Other Words From

  • puling·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of puling1

First recorded in 1520–30; pule + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.

We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.

Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!

No puling cloister-maid this that dares not raise her eyes higher than her bridegroom's knee!

Poets are such a quarrelsome lot tooeffeminate, puling, unmanly humbugs!

He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.

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