Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PULE
PULE, v.i. [Fr. piauler. This word belongs probably to the root of bawl, bellow, L. pello.]
- To cry like a chicken. – Bacon.
- To whine; to cry as a complaining child; to whimper. To speak puling like a beggar at halimass. – Shak.
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