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pule¹

  • /pjuːl/
  • /pjʉl/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -uːl

Where it comes from

From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).

noun pules

  1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

verb pules · puling · puled

  1. intransitive To whimper or whine. Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
  2. intransitive To pipe or chirp.
  3. of rain 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[,][…]

pule²

  • /ˈpuːleɪ/

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from Serbo-Croatian pule /пуле.

noun

  1. uncountable A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

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"pule." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pule. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pule. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pule

Chicago

"pule." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pule.

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@misc{pule_2026,
  title = {pule},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pule},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}