puling
/pyoo-ling/US // ˈpyu lɪŋ //
拔火罐,拔毛,拔罐,拔出
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : whining; whimpering: a puling child.
Examples
There's been quite a bit of hair-puling over why Washington DC isn't hip.
We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.
Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!
No puling cloister-maid this that dares not raise her eyes higher than her bridegroom's knee!
Poets are such a quarrelsome lot tooeffeminate, puling, unmanly humbugs!
He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.
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