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Pule vs Mewl - What's the difference?

pule | mewl |

As nouns the difference between pule and mewl

is that pule is chicken while mewl is a soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .

As a verb mewl is

to cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.

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 ----

    mewl

    English

    Verb

  • To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
  • * 1599 , , As You Like It
  • And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, ...
  • * 1844 , , Martin Chuzzlewit
  • You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling , white-faced cat!
  • * 2007 , Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley , page 11,
  • My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .
  • * 1995 , , Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa (translators), The Murmuring Coast , page 89,
  • There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
  • * 2009 , Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys , page 61,
  • I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
  • * 2010 , Chris Wooding, Malice , page 15,
  • The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.