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puling

/pyoo-ling/US // ˈpyu lɪŋ //

拔火罐,拔毛,拔罐,拔出

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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.