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発音

• IPA: /pjuː/
• 韻: -uː

動詞

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 folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

     The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.

関連する語

• peevish

参照

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