pule

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English

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Etymology 1

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From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (to chirp, cheep). Compare Italian pigolare (to cheep as a chicken).

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Noun

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pule (plural pules)

  1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

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pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)

  1. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.
    Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
  2. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
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References

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  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Etymology 2

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pule (uncountable)

  1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From dialectal Swedish pula (have sex with).

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  • IPA(key): /puːlə/, [ˈpʰuːlə]

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pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)

  1. (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly

Galician

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pule

  1. second-person singular imperative of pulir
  2. inflection of pular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

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pule

  1. inflection of pulen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hawaiian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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pule

  1. prayer, spell, blessing
  2. church service
  3. week

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pule

  1. (transitive) to pray

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.le/
  • Rhymes: -ule
  • Hyphenation: pù‧le

Noun

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pule m

  1. plural of pula

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Middle English

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Noun

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pule

  1. Alternative form of pilwe

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)

  1. (slang, vulgar) have sex; fuck

Norwegian Nynorsk

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pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)

  1. (slang, vulgar) fuck; have sex

Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation: pu‧le

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pule

  1. inflection of pular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of polir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Noun

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pule

  1. plural of pulă

Usage notes

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Although the plural form pule is that which would be found in a dictionary, puli and the other forms based on this plural form are more common.

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Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

Noun

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pule

  1. shell
  2. cowrie

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpule/ [ˈpu.le]
  • Rhymes: -ule
  • Syllabification: pu‧le

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pule

  1. inflection of pulir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Tongan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

Noun

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pule

  1. cowrie shell

Etymology 2

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Noun

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pule

  1. authority
  2. leader; boss

Volapük

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Noun

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pule

  1. dative singular of pul