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English
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Verb
pushing
- present participle and gerund of push
Adjective
pushing (comparative more pushing, superlative most pushing)
- That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
- (now rare) Aggressively assertive; pushy.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair […]
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Noun
pushing (plural pushings)
- The act by which something is pushed.
We were soon separated by the pushings and shovings of the crowd.
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