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Pushy vs Cheeky - What's the difference?

pushy | cheeky |

As adjectives the difference between pushy and cheeky

is that pushy is aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined while cheeky is (informal) impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.

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

    cheeky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
  • * 1899 , , Stalky & Co. , chaper 4:
    • "Shut up," said Harrison. "You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you."
    "You're a lot too cheeky ," said Craye.
  • * 1909 , , The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England , chaper 7:
    • The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.

    Synonyms

    * saucy * insolent * See