20090624每日一词

junli

pule

\PYOOL\ , intransitive verb:
1.To whimper; to whine.
不及物动词 vi.
1.发轻叫声;低声啜泣

Quotes:
The first lady initially flourished as a wronged wife precisely because she endured her humiliation so stoically; she did not whine or pule or treat her pain as license to behave badly.
~Michelle Cottle, "God Almighty", New Republic, September 6, 1999
But my self-absorbed fretting and puling always come to an abrupt end with some surprise gift.
~Thomas J. McCarthy, "Stay-at-Home Dad", America, February 26, 2000

Origin:
Pule is perhaps from French piauler, "to whine, to pule," ultimately of imitative origin.