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Poule vs Pule - What's the difference?

poule | pule |

As nouns the difference between poule and pule

is that poule is a girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut or poule can be (in various senses) while pule is chicken.

poule

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) poule.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.
  • * 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:
  • *:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in various senses)
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    pule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plaintive melancholy whine

    • Verb

    (pul)
  • To whimper or to whine.
    • "Although the elderly man had some terrible turn of events before him, as well as mounting pain from his illness, he did not ever complain or pule ."

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----