pule
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Etymology 1 edit
From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).
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pule (plural pules)
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pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)
- (intransitive) To whimper or whine.
- Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
- (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
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- OED 2nd edition 1989
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pule (uncountable)
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From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).
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pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)
- (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly
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pule
- second-person singular imperative of pulir
- inflection of pular:
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pule
- inflection of pulen:
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pule
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pule
- (transitive) to pray
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pule m
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pule
- Alternative form of pilwe
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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)
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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)
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- Hyphenation: pu‧le
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pule
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pule
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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.
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From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.
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pule
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pule
- inflection of pulir:
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From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.
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pule
- cowrie shell
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pule
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pule