pue

See also: PUE, pué, pu'e, and pü

English

Alternative forms

• pew

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Verb

pue (third-person singular simple present pues, present participle puing, simple past and past participle pued)

1. (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

• peevish

References

• “pue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Asturian

Verb

pue

1. third-person singular present indicative of poder

Finnish

Verb

pue

1. inflection of pukea:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pues, puent, pus, put, pût

Verb

pue

1. inflection of puer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• peu

Warembori

Noun

pue

1. pig

   E pue pa kambi.

   I hunt big pigs.

References

• Donohue, Mark. Warembori grammar sketch. Sydney: Univ. iii+70pp. (1999).