Pushy vs Pushful - What's the difference?
pushy | pushful |
Aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined.
Energetic; pushy.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=William Le Queux, title=The Czar's Spy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of a millionaire pork-butcher doing Europe. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=John F. Runciman, title=Haydn, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917, chapter=, edition=
, passage='Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword. }}
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 189:
*:Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful ) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman […].
As adjectives the difference between pushy and pushful
is that pushy is aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined while pushful is energetic; pushy.pushy
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(er)- Parents are ruining school sports days by being pushy and overbearing, a survey suggests. BBC
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