Meaning & use
Puling
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Crying weakly and persistently, or whining in a feeble, complaining way.
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The puling infant refused to settle no matter how she was rocked.
He had no patience for the puling complaints of his younger staff.
A note on using this word
A literary and somewhat archaic word, most often encountered in older fiction describing weak, plaintive crying.
Words with a similar meaning
whimperingwhining
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