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Aug 13, 2025
This week’s theme
Exempli gratia

This week’s words
fruiterer
innumerate
pule
agon
exfoliate

pule
The Acrobats, 1874
Art: Gustave Doré

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pule

PRONUNCIATION:
(pyool)

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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