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▪ I. puling, vbl. n.|ˈpjuːlɪŋ|
[f. pule v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb pule; whining, plaintive piping; a complaint.
1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. ii. v. (1557) 83 The women will..ofte complayne and vexe their housbandes, and angre them withe peuysshe puelynge. 1625Bacon Ess., Masques & Triumphs (Arb.) 540 Let the Songs be Loud, and Cheerefull, and not Chirpings, or Pulings. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xxix, Be a man, Jack, and have no more of this puling.
†b. One who pules; a weakling. Obs.
1579–80North Plutarch (1895) I. 29 Catoes sonne..was such a weake pulinge, that he could not away with much hardnesse.
▪ II. puling, ppl. a.|ˈpjuːlɪŋ|
[f. pule v. + -ing2.]
1. Crying as a child, whining, feebly wailing; weakly querulous. Mostly contemptuous.
1529More Suppl. Soulys Wks. 299/2 So much and in suche wise as we sely pore pewling sowles neither can deuise nor vtter. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 185 A wretched puling foole, A whining mammet. 1648Milton Tenure Kings (1650) 6 The unmaskuline Rhetorick of any puling Priest. 1781Cowper Expost. 474 While yet thou [Britain] wast a grov'ling puling chit. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret ii. i, [She] is not one of the puling, sentimental sort.
†2. Pining, ailing, weakly, sickly. Obs.
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly F j b, How weake and pewlyng his childhode. 1641Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 382 As well as puling stomacks are made strong By eating against Appetite. a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) ii. 126 Lean land will serve for puling pease and faint fetches. 1706Phillips, Puling, sickly, weakly, crazy.
Hence ˈpulingly adv.
1600Dekker Gentle Craft Wks. 1873 I. 42 Mistress, be rul'd by me, and do not speake so pulingly. a1661Fuller Worthies, Wilts. (1662) iii. 146 An erected soul, disdaining pulingly to submit to an infamous death. 1904C. L. Marson Folk Songs Somerset I. p. xi, The so-called cultured people lament pulingly that we have been forgotten in the Divine Almonry. |