Adjective : a puling child.    From Dictionary.com. 

What that's doing is kind of puling in the real world in a strange way.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Inside the Box] Reference

A pair of puling pious sentimentalists if you like.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

I've pined after you all my life like a puling boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

My socius thinks "what a puling fool this North is!".    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

"Throw that rotten piece of meat away and stop puling!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

The radio was puling with a song called “Szelem Szelem”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference

A puling writer who didn't read the FAQ has themself to blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get the fucking Clue Gun] Reference

But 'tis a puling fool, more fitting for the bowers of ladies. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

So, as you can see, I'm puling out all the stops here everybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008] Reference

I was just puling your chain to slip in an anti-abortion comment.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Snowmobilers run over ducks in Fort Atkinson."] Reference

It does not lay in your puling mouth to talk WWII in front of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference

A bully, a coward, a puling milksop, is all the character he beareth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

J. Moore commenced puling down the fire place in the Breckfast Room. 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference

Flowers, torn from their tender stalks, lay prostrate in puling puddles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

She tried the bonds at one ankle this time, puling upwards as well as back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodhype]

At about half my lifetime, I can remember you as a puling infant, Vidal Dhu.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

It was a helpless, puling, tender thing, demanding his sympathy and his love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference

The scraper is moved over the workpiece by the pushing or puling power of the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Operation of scraping] Reference

But that will be better than puling and moping about without daring to tell my tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

'I am not a puling infant to need a nursemaid to hold me in the saddle,' he snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

There is still something that oppresses us -- there is too much puling and complaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

Will and Enoch hauling off with the ox cart Murf Daph and Isaiah puling up corn stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference

As I was puling up my pants, she said, LOUDLY, Mommy, your bum is more hairier than mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minding One's Peens and Q's] Reference

Andrew Blakeny Martin Shellman puling and husking the corn in the lot back of the Garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference

She was no puling, sentimental girl to hang about his neck, and crush roses into his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

James Moore and Julious at the fire place puling down preparitory to making an alteration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,] Reference

Completely gone now, all that melodrama and Islamophobic puling reduced to ashy nothingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011] Reference

"Some puling theoretician!" he muttered to himself, as he walked to the works one winter morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Obviously, losing by 50,000 after puling out early shows Gore was RIGHT not to seriously challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Wins Wyoming, Networks Say] Reference

To end this damned mawkish indecision, this puling concern as to whether one would hurt her too much!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowering Wilderness] Reference

The Kroll mercenary supplier is puling out, announcing that Iraq is too dangerous for its mercenaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq: Corporate Rats flee as country lurches toward civil war] Reference

Robert is willing to give up that royal prize to a lad-rival - a puling slip of aristocracy - I am quite agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

He laughed gaily, showing his even teeth, and puling his cap over the thin place, went out and got into his carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

“He will sow his wild oats,” she would say, “and is worth far more than that puling hypocrite of a brother of his.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference