| 释义 |
pulamiting, ppl. a. dial.|ˈpjuːləˌmaɪtɪŋ|
[Prob. f. unrecorded pulamite vb. + -ing2; cf. pule v. + mite2 5.]
Of a child or weak person: whining, whimpering. Also ˈpulaˌmiter [-er1], one who whines; a sniveller.
1913D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ii. viii. 198 ‘Me!’ exclaimed Morel—‘me a good figure! I wor niver much more n'r a skeleton.’ ‘Man!’ cried his wife, ‘don't be such a pulamiter!’ a1930― in Virginia Q. Rev. (1941) XVII. Suppl. 43/1 You are a base, malingering pulamiting wretch. |