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Definition of Pulingly
1. adv. With whining or complaint.
Definition of Pulingly
1. Adverb. With whining or complaint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulingly
1. in a whining manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulingly
Literary usage of Pulingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"But, mistress, be rul'd by me, and do not speak so pulingly. FIRK. 'Tis her
worship speaks so, and not she. No, faith, mistress, speak me in the old key:' ..."
2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"... and doe not speake so pulingly. Firke. Tis her worship speakes so, and not she.
No, faith, mistresse, speake mee in the olde key: ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1845)
"He is profoundly religious, not mawkishly, pulingly, but bravely pious. He is
humane too in the largest sense. His heart beats with his race. ..."
4. Resolves, divine, moral, political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"Good parts in poverty, shew like beauty after sickness; pallid and pulingly deadish.
And if all these calamities be but attendants, what may we judge that ..."
5. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"But, mistress, be rul'd by me, and do not speak so pulingly. f'irk. 'T is her
worship speaks so, and not she. No, faith, mistress, speak me in the old key: ..."
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