Pushy

Definition: Pushy

Pushy

Adjective

1. Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young exective"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pushy

Crosswords: Pushy

Pushy kids think they can tell me what to do in my house, Why, I tell you these parents these days they don't know how to rear children (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You know, you're pushy. (The Omen; writing credit: David Seltzer)

The Soprano family has always been a little pushy. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Boy, and I thought insurance salesmen were pushy! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "pushy": pushy way. Additional references.

Beginning with "pushy": pushy-aggression.

Arabic 

‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, snooty, supercilious), ‏إنتهازي (machiavellian, opportunist, profiteer, pusher, pushful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нахакан (fresh, puppyish, pushful, pushing, robustious, smart), натрапчив (adhesive, compulsive, intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious, pragmatic, pragmatical). (various references)

French

arrogant (pushful), arriviste (pusher, pushful, pushing). (various references)

German

aufdringlich (aggressive, brash, gratingly, importunate, importunately, insistent, intrusive, intrusively, meddlesome, meretricious, obtrusive, obtrusively, pushing, urgent). (various references)

Hungarian

törtető (eager beaver, go-getter, pushing, thruster), rámenős (abrasive, assertive, bouncy, bullet-headed, full of zip, go-ahead, impetuous, pushing, snappy, zippy). (various references)

Italian

troppo intraprendente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

強引 (coercive, forcible, high-handed, overbearing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うい�" (carousing, coercive, drinking, forcible, high-handed, karma, overbearing). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushypay.(various references)

Portuguese

intrometido (disruptive, meddlesome, nosey, nosy, obtrusive, officious, pragmatical, pushing, snooper), agressivo (assertive, belligerent, ill-conditioned, offensive, truculent). (various references)

Russian 

развязный (bounder, forward, jaunty, loud, pert, sassy), нахальный (bumptious, cheeky, cocky, impertinent, impudent, pert, presumptuous, sassy, smart-alecky, snotty), назойливый (importunate, importune, interfering, intrusive, molestful, obtrusive, officious, pestilent, pragmatic, pragmatical, tiresome, worrisome), напористый (assertive, hotshort, hotshot, pushing, self-assertive, up and coming), бесцеремонный (cavalier, offhand, offhanded, presumptuous, snippy, unceremonious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

agresivan (aggressive, bumptious, two-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

molesto (aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, ill at ease, importunate, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, objectionable, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguy, provoking, pushing, troublesome, trying, unwelcome, vexatious, vexed). (various references)

Thai

ก้าวร้าว, วางอำนาจ. (various references)

Turkish

saldırgan (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assailer, attacker, get-tough, hard-hitting, invader, militant, offensive, thrusting), öne çıkmaya çalışan. (various references)

Turkmen 

itigi (pushy person). (various references)

Misspellings

"Pushy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lushy, Pakshaya, paush, Pishu, poshy, Pubsey, puihu, pusey, pushe, pushey, pushie, pussey, Pustyn, pusy, ushi, Yusshy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hyps, push, syph, yups.

-2 letters: hup, hyp, pus, shy, spy, sup, ups, yup.

-3 letters: sh, uh, up, us.

+1 letter: plushy, typhus.

+2 letters: plushly, pushily, scyphus, shlumpy, typhous.

+3 letters: euphrasy, physique, plushily, puppyish, sphygmus, subphyla, sulphury, typhuses, uppishly.

+4 letters: hypocaust, hypogeous, lumpishly, physiques, playhouse, prudishly, puckishly, subphylum, superhype, unshapely.

+5 letters: coryphaeus, hypercubes, hypocausts, hypogynous, hypotenuse, keypunches, picayunish, playhouses, polyanthus, puppyhoods, pyrethrums, sphygmuses, superheavy, superhyped, superhypes, suretyship, upholstery.