This week’s theme
Exempli gratia

This week’s words
fruiterer
innumerate
pule
agon
exfoliate

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A.Word.A.Day

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.

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