puling
[ pyoo-ling ]
adjective
whining; whimpering: a puling child.
Origin of puling
1Other words from puling
- pul·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby puling
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use puling in a sentence
There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.
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 StevensonAway with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!
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) CrockettPoets 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
Browse