Pushing vs Jostle - What's the difference?
pushing | jostle |
Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
Aggressively assertive; pushy.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
*:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
* Macaulay
* I. Taylor
To move through by pushing and shoving.
To be close to or in physical contact with.
To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
As verbs the difference between pushing and jostle
is that pushing is present participle of lang=en while jostle is to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.As nouns the difference between pushing and jostle
is that pushing is the act by which something is pushed while jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs.As an adjective pushing
is that pushes forward; pressing, driving.pushing
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*jostle
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(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.