pue
English
Alternative forms
Verb
pue (third-person singular simple present pues, present participle puing, simple past and past participle pued)
- (dated, intransitive) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.
Related terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Asturian
Verb
Finnish
Verb
pue
- (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of pukea
- (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of pukea
- (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of pukea
French
Pronunciation
Verb
pue
- first-person singular present indicative of puer
- third-person singular present indicative of puer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of puer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of puer
- second-person singular imperative of puer
Anagrams
Warembori
Noun
pue
- pig
- E pue pa kambi.
- I hunt big pigs.
References
- Donohue, Mark. Warembori grammar sketch. Sydney: Univ. iii+70pp. (1999).
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