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▪ I. ˈpushing, vbl. n.
[f. push v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb push in various senses.
1530Palsgr. 259 Pusshyng, thrustyng, rebovtement. 1659C. Noble Mod. Answ. to Immod. Queries To Rdr. 2 May we not take these bold disputes and questionings, as pushings at the feet of his present Highness? 1799H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 244 With the same earnest pushing on to continual progress. 1885C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. Feb. 471/2 With some pushing he made his way within. 1962‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed ix. 61 My boss don't go for guys that goof like that. So he bounced me fast. I'm through pushing. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 148, I wouldn't want him to go back to numbers, or pushing, or anything like that. 1974P. McCutchan Call for Simon Shard iv. 42 The body had contained no residue of heroin, so pushing was more likely to be the answer.
b. attrib. and Comb., as pushing-pole; pushing-jack, a form of jack (Jack n.1 10) for moving or pushing a heavy object, as a railway-truck or the like, a short distance; † pushing-master, a teacher of fencing; pushing-net, ? = pout-net; † pushing-school, see quot. a 1700.
1698Farquhar Love & Bottle i. i, He appeared crowded about with a dancing-master, pushing-master, music-master, and all the throng of beau-makers. Ibid. ii. ii, Sir, here comes the pushing-master. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Pushing-School, a Fencing School. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 254 Two Bag Nets. Casting Net. Beach Net... Pushing Net. 1884Pushing-pole [see pusher 1].
▪ II. ˈpushing, ppl. a.
[f. push v. + -ing2.]
That pushes. a. Thrusting, shoving, driving.
1693T. Power in Dryden's Juvenal (1697) xii. 305 A Steer..Forward he bounds his Rope's extended length, With pushing front. 1854C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 182 With pushing horns and clawed and clutching hands.
b. fig. That pushes forward; active, energetic, enterprising, keen to do business; also, intrusively forward, self-assertive, officious.
1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. Pref. 8 As for personal Courage, that of Augustus was not pushing. 1737L. Clarke Hist. Bible i. (1740) I. 33 Nimrod, a bold and pushing man. 1755Johnson, Pushing, enterprising, vigorous. 1765C. Brietzcke Diary 8 Aug. in N. & Q. (1964) CCIX. 13/1 Said Nothing.., for fear he should think me pushing. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 167 A pushing rising family. 1884Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/3 Assurance..Pushing Man Wanted. 1966Listener 27 Oct. 613/2 Lesser men might think him pushing or selfish or out for his own ends.
Hence ˈpushingly adv., ˈpushingness.
1847Webster, Pushingly. 1881Daily News Leader 23 Mar., Avarice, ambition, and social pushingness. |