单词 | elbowing |
释义 | elbowingn. The action of thrusting with the elbow; concrete a thrust with the elbow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > pushing > with the elbow nudging1796 elbowing1820 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 17 What crowding then and elbowing among them! 1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. iv. 80 I received on the stairs so many shoves and elbowings. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xiv. 229 He pushed his way..with a sort of pleasure in the..elbowing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). elbowingadj. That thrusts with the elbow; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [adjective] > striking with pushing action > pushing with elbow elbowing1755 nudging1796 1755 J. Grainger Solitude in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 233 Purse-proud, elbowing Insolence. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 23 The elbowing self-conceit of youth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1820adj.1755 |
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