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Pouring out the whines
Answer for the clue "Pouring out the whines ", 6 letters:
puling
Word definitions for puling in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A whining or whimpering. vb. (present participle of pule English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pule \Pule\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puling .] [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.] To cry like a chicken. --Bacon. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant ...
Usage examples of puling.
It turns out, of course, that Armado is himself in love with Jaquenetta, and he displays this in the approved manner of the puling stage lover.
I thrashed that puling young patroon, too, for he saw me and refused my salute.
The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a cock on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour--all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest.
He screamed abuse at the khagan: "Thou dolt, thou clodpoll, thou idiot puling mousling with fantasies of manhood!