pue
English
Alternative forms
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.
Related terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Asturian
Finnish
French
Verb
pue
Warembori
References
- Donohue, Mark. Warembori grammar sketch. Sydney: Univ. iii+70pp. (1999).
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