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pushful, a.|ˈpʊʃfʊl|
[f. push n. + -ful.]
Full of ‘push’ (see push n.1 7); active and energetic in prosecuting one's affairs; self-assertive; pushing; aggressively enterprising.
1896Ch.-Just. Alvey (U.S.) in Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 5/2, I suppose Mr. Chamberlain, more than Lord Salisbury, is the present representative of that pushful spirit which makes England's attempts to advance her lines and extend her Empire on this continent a subject of national sensitiveness. 1896Gentlewoman 23 May 692/3 The Pushful Woman. 1899Athenæum 21 Oct. 550/2 A little pushful perhaps, and in danger of being a little vulgar. 1931Wodehouse If I were You xiv. 163 What a pushful young devil you are. 1938E. Waugh Scoop iii. 272 He must be a very pushful fellow, inviting himself here like this. 1970Rep. Comm. on University Press (Univ. Oxford) 71 This more ‘pushful’ approach. 1974‘W. Haggard’ Kinsmen ix. 93 The tiresomely modern bishop..was pushful and very far to the Left.
Hence ˈpushfully adv., ˈpushfulness: also fig.
1899Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 2 It is little like pushfulness to rely in this way on someone's book. 1907Academy 17 Aug. 800/1 Be pushful and your nose will obtrude on society pushfully. 1926R. M. Caven Gas & Gases ii. 38 The great characteristic of a gas or vapour is its pushfulness: it is always pushing. Ibid. 39 The property of a gas which we have colloquially called its pushfulness..with more propriety we should call the expansive power. 1958Economist 25 Oct. 297/2 Moscow and Peking have divided, by tacit agreement, their zones of interference: China in Asia, the Soviet Union in the Middle East and Africa. Even so, the pushfulness of the two has varied remarkably. 1968Listener 29 Aug. 280/2 The Dick Whittington legend..with its twin themes of individual pushfulness and the escape from provincial stagnation. |