pule

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

• IPA^(key): /pjuːl/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /pjʉl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

pule (plural pules)

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

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.

• puler

• OED 2nd edition 1989

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːleɪ/

pule (uncountable)

1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

• Lupe

From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).

• IPA^(key): /puːlə/, [ˈpʰuːlə]

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

1. (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly

pule

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

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pule

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.le/

pule

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

pule

1. (transitive) to pray

• pule in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

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

pule m

1. plural of pula

• lupe

pule

1. Alternative form of pilwe

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

1. (slang, vulgar) have sex; fuck

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

1. (slang, vulgar) fuck; have sex

• Hyphenation: pu‧le

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpu.le]

pule

1. plural of pulă

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.

• puli

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

pule

1. shell
2. cowrie

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

pule

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

• IPA^(key): /pu.le/

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

pule

1. cowrie shell

pule

1. authority
2. leader; boss

pule

1. dative singular of pul