puling

[ pyoo-ling ]

/ ˈpyu lɪŋ /

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whining; whimpering: a puling child.

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First recorded in 1520–30; pule + -ing²

pul·ing·ly, adverb

There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.
Why Isn't Washington DC Hip?|Justin Green|September 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson
Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker
No puling cloister-maid this that dares not raise her eyes higher than her bridegroom's knee!
Joan of the Sword Hand|S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett

Poets are such a quarrelsome lot tooeffeminate, puling, unmanly humbugs!
The Sorrows of Satan|Marie Corelli
He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.
Within the Law|Marvin Dana