pue
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pjuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb
pue (third-person singular simple present pues, present participle puing, simple past and past participle pued)
- (dated, intransitive) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.
Related terms
References
- “pue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Asturian
Finnish
Verb
pue
- inflection of pukea:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
French
Verb
pue
- inflection of puer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Warembori
References
- Donohue, Mark. Warembori grammar sketch. Sydney: Univ. iii+70pp. (1999).
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