different between poule vs pule

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pu?l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:

     It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:

     ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

Etymology 2

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

Anagrams

• Loupe, Puleo, loupe

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pulla.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen

Synonyms

• geleigne

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pou?l?]

Verb

poule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pul/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of from Latin pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)
2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

Derived terms

Related terms

• poulain
• poulet

See also

• coq

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (card games) pool
2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

Derived terms

• phase de poule

Descendants

• English: pool

Anagrams

• loupe, loupé

Further reading

• “poule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (Jersey) hen

Synonyms

• g'linne

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

Derived terms

• poulet

Descendants

• ? Middle English: pulle
• French: poule
• Norman: poule

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

Spanish

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. pool stage

English

Etymology 1

From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pju?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Noun

pule (plural pules)

1. A plaintive melancholy whine.

Verb

pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)

1. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.

   Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.

2. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Etymology 2

Noun

pule (uncountable)

1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

Anagrams

• Lupe

Danish

Etymology

From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?l?/, [?p?u?l?]

Verb

pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)

1. (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly

Galician

Verb

pule

1. second-person singular imperative of pulir

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pule

1. inflection of pulen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Hawaiian

Noun

pule

1. prayer, spell, blessing
2. church service
3. week

Verb

pule

1. (transitive) to pray

Italian

Noun

pule m

1. plural of pula

Anagrams

• lupe

Middle English

Noun

pule

1. Alternative form of pilwe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)

1. (slang, vulgar) have sex; fuck

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)

1. (slang, vulgar) fuck; have sex

Portuguese

Verb

pule

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of pular
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of pular
3. first-person singular imperative of pular
4. third-person singular imperative of pular

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pu.le]

Noun

pule

1. plural of pul?

Usage notes

Although the plural form pule is that which would be found in a dictionary, puli and the other forms based on this plural form are more common.

Synonyms

• puli

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

Noun

pule

1. shell
2. cowrie

Spanish

Verb

pule

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pulir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pulir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pulir.

Tongan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.le/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

Noun

pule

1. cowrie shell

Etymology 2

Noun

pule

1. authority
2. leader; boss

Volapük

Noun

pule

1. dative singular of pul