pule
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A plaintive melancholy whine.
- A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
动词 v.
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To whimper or whine.
— Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
- To pipe or chirp.
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To fall in a continuous, light dribble.
— ... 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[,][…]
词源
From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).
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