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Aug 13, 2025
This week’s themeExempli gratia This week’s words fruiterer innumerate pule agon exfoliate ![]() ![]()
The Acrobats, 1874
Art: Gustave Doré
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with Anu Gargpule
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb intr.: To whimper or whine.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1398.
USAGE:
“Her house became the refuge of young men puling in puberty, mourning
over lost virtue, and aching to lose some more.” John Steinbeck; East of Eden; Viking; 1952. See more usage examples of pule in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. -Alfred
Hitchcock, film-maker (13 Aug 1899-1980)
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