puling
English
Etymology 1
From pule + -ing.
Verb
puling
- present participle of pule
Etymology 2
From pule + -ing.
Noun
puling (plural pulings)
- A whining or whimpering.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:
- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:
- ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton—isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
- What glamour of infatuation was it which made that nonsense beautiful? One wonders that such puling and trash could ever have made one happy. And yet there were dates when you kissed those silly letters with rapture—lived upon six absurd lines for a week, and until the reactionary period came, when you were restless and miserable until you got a fresh supply of folly.
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Synonyms
- mewling
Anagrams
- Pinglu, gulpin, plug in, plug-in, plugin
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧ling
Verb
puling
- to have a foreign object enter the eye