pule

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

• IPA^(key): /pjuːl/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /pjʉl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

pule (plural pules)

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)

1. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.

   Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.

   • 1898, The Ludgate Monthly, page 13:

     ... rain-drops over the puling baby she carried in her arms; […]

2. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
3. (of rain, snow, etc) To fall in a continuous, light dribble.
   • 2006 06, Dan Skelton, The Human Element, Dan Skelton, →ISBN, page 123:

     ... 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[,] […]

   • 2007 March 5, Kresley Cole, The Price of Pleasure, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68:

     ... rain fell, not merely spilling from the clouds, but pitched down to beat the earth. Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force. He almost longed for the puling rain of England instead of this assault […]

   • 2019 January 21, Robert Low, Beasts Beyond The Wall, Canelo, →ISBN:

     ... looked at the puling sky, face upturned to a mirr of rain.

• puler

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “pule”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Joseph Wright, editor (1903), “PULE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume IV (M–Q), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːleɪ/

pule (uncountable)

1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

• Lupe

pule

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of pulë

From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).

• IPA^(key): /puːlə/, [ˈpʰuːlə]

pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)

1. (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly

pule

1. second-person singular imperative of pulir
2. inflection of pular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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pule

1. inflection of pulen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.le/

From Proto-Polynesian *pule (“to exert authority”). Cognate with Niuean pule (“authority”), Tahitian pure (“prayer”).

pule

1. prayer, spell, blessing
2. church service
3. week

pule(transitive)

1. to pray
2. to worship

From Proto-Polynesian *pule (“cowrie”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq (“cowrie shell”).

pule

1. speckled

• ʻōpule

• pule in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.le/
• Rhymes: -ule
• Hyphenation: pù‧le

pule m

1. plural of pula

• lupe

pule

1. alternative form of pilwe

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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)

1. (slang, vulgar) have sex; fuck

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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)

1. (slang, vulgar) fuck; have sex

• Hyphenation: pu‧le

pule

1. inflection of pular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of polir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈpu.le]

pule

1. plural of pulă

Although the plural form pule is that which would be found in a dictionary, puli and the other forms based on this plural form are more common.

• puli

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

pule

1. shell
2. cowrie

• IPA^(key): /ˈpule/ [ˈpu.le]
• Rhymes: -ule
• Syllabification: pu‧le

pule

1. inflection of pulir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /pu.le/

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

pule

1. cowrie shell

pule

1. authority
2. leader; boss

pule

1. dative singular of pul