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PULING
Definition of PULING
verb
present participle and gerund of pule
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PULING carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A plaintive piping, as of a chicken; a whining complaint.
Complaining; whining; crying; childish; weak.
noun
A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
adjective
Whimpering; whining; childish.
Where it comes from
From pule + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PUL · 2 relatives in the game
PULING in a sentence
“Men have perfected technology for garnering more power from less wind, installing large gears on larger blades for the sake of turning the turbine at a constant speed even in puling puffs of air.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PULING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 109 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PULING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GILNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PULING. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PULING?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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