different between puling vs purling

English

Etymology 1

From pule +? -ing.

Verb

puling

1. present participle of pule

Etymology 2

From pule +? -ing.

Noun

puling (plural pulings)

1. A whining or whimpering.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs

     Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XX:

     ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton—isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’

Synonyms

• mewling

Anagrams

• plug in, plug-in, plugin

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu?ling

Verb

puling

1. to have a foreign object enter the eye

English

Verb

purling

1. present participle of purl

Adjective

purling (comparative more purling, superlative most purling)

1. That purls; rippling, eddying.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.6:

     They have sometimes caused an high steepy mountaine to arise in the midst of the sayd Amphitheaters, all over-spred with fruitfull and flourishing trees of all sortes, on the top whereof gushed out streames of water as from out the source of a purling spring.

   • 2018, Clay S. Jenkinson, Jefferson's Second American Revolution, in: The Jefferson Watch, December 18 2018

     [Thomas Jefferson] was up near the source of the River of America, near the Three Forks, while we are downstream from New Orleans in a broad, deep, incredibly powerful river that often feels more like a sewer than a purling mountain stream.

Noun

purling (plural purlings)

1. The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

   the purlings of the stream