Crossword clues for puling
puling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puling \Pul"ing\, n. A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.
--Shak.
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 to whine and pule.
--Barrow.
Puling \Pul"ing\, a. Whimpering; whining; childish.
Wiktionary
n. A whining or whimpering. vb. (present participle of pule English)
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!