pulen

pulen

1. inflection of pular:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Borrowed from German Low German and Middle Low German pulen (“to pull out”), ultimately related to Old English pullian (“to pluck out, pull”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːlən/

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pulen (weak, third-person singular present pult, past tense pulte, past participle gepult, auxiliary haben) (transitive, especially Northern Germany)

1. (informal) to pick, to pull (to try to dislodge or remove something small with one's fingers, especially laboriously so)

   an etwas pulen ― to pick at something

2. to shell (to separate the meat of a crustacean from its shell)

   gepulte Krabben ― shelled shrimp

• “pulen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “pulen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “pulen” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulen/ [ˈpu.lẽn]
• Rhymes: -ulen
• Syllabification: pu‧len

pulen

1. third-person plural present indicative of pulir