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Push is a related term of stoush.


As verbs the difference between push and stoush

is that push is (intransitive) to apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force while stoush is (australia|informal) to fight; to argue.

As nouns the difference between push and stoush

is that push is a short, directed application of force; an act of pushing or push can be (obsolete|uk|dialect) a pustule; a pimple while stoush is (australia|new zealand|informal) a fight, an argument.

push

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Verb

(es)
  • (intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
    • In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.
    You need to push quite hard to get this door open.
  • To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • We are pushed for an answer.
  • * Spectator
    • Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.
  • To press or urge forward; to drive.
    • to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck
  • * Dryden
    • to push his fortune
  • To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
    • Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.
    They're pushing that perfume again.
    There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.
  • (informal) To approach; to come close to.
    • My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.
    He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )
  • To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
    • During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .
  • To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
  • To make a higher bid at an auction.
  • (poker) To make an all-in bet.
  • (chess) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
  • (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
  • * 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)
    • When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
  • (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxi. 32
    • If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.
  • To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
    • Synonyms
    * to press, to shove, to thrutch * (continue to attempt to persuade) to press, to urge * (continue to promote) to press, to advertise, to promote * (come close to) to approach, to near * to press, to shove, to thring * (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents) to bear down
    Antonyms
    * (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to pop
    Derived terms
    * pedal pushers * push around * push-bike * pushful * push in * push off * push one's luck * pushover * push someone's buttons * push it * push-up * pushy

    Noun

    (es)
  • A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
    • Give the door a hard push if it sticks.
  • An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
    • One more push and the baby will be out.
  • A great effort (to do something).
    • Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.
    Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.
  • (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
  • A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
  • (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
  • (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push'', ''push technology .
  • (dated) A crowd or throng or people
  • * 1891 , Banjo Paterson,
    • Till some wild, excited person
    Galloped down the township cursing,
    "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,
    Roll up, Dandaloo!"
    Derived terms
    * give someone the push

    Etymology 2

    Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
    • (Francis Bacon)
    1000 English basic words ----

    stoush

    English

    Noun

    (stoushes)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
  • * 1996 , , Glamour and the Sea , Victoria University Press, New Zealand, page 166,
    • Barry explained that his friend wasn?t drunk, he?d been in a stoush , had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
  • * 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 200,
    • Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush , but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
  • * 2004 , Jay Verney, Percussion , University of Queensland Press, page 151,
    • She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica?s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
  • * 2008 , Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 , Fremantle Press, page 63,
    • Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.

    Verb

  • (Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
  • * 1916 , , The Call of Stoush'', ''The Moods of Ginger Mick , 2009, Sydney University Press, page 15,
    • Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
  • * 1999 , Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life , page 121,
    • The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
  • * 2008 , Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs , 2012, unnumbered page,
    • There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.

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