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Plushy vs Pushy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between plushy and pushy

is that plushy is like plush; soft and shaggy while pushy is aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined.

plushy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Like plush; soft and shaggy.
  • Plush; sumptuous.
  • *1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 101:
  • *:one saw and felt a vanished Broadway, plains covered with cattle and cowboys, jungles and native villages, and a great shining city of hansom-cabs, political intrigue and plushy champagne-suppers, as if one were walking through them oneself in the company of a superb raconteur and inspired liar.

    • pushy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined.
    • Parents are ruining school sports days by being pushy and overbearing, a survey suggests. BBC

    Related terms

    * push