puleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pjuːl/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /pjʉl/
• 韻: -uːl

名詞

pule (plural pules)

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

動詞

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.

派生語

• puler
• pulingly

参照

• 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.

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発音

• IPA: /ˈpuːleɪ/

名詞

pule (uncountable)

1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

アナグラム

• Lupe