pushee
English
Noun
pushee (plural pushees)
- one who is pushed around, literally or metaphorically
- 1918 Letters by Victor Murdock to the Folks at Home Eagle Press
- Then the man who has pushed walks away, apparently satisfied. At once the man who was throwing a fit follows the other up and says something to him and retreats, and the pusher runs back at the pushee, and the air is eloquent of murder. But I soon learned to quit holding my breath. It only meant a renewal of the argument. There is charge and answer-a regular debate, and the crowd, which forms a good old civilized circle, laughs at the shots given. The pusher calls the pushee's father a cock-roach, and the pushee says the pusher's grandfather was a scorpion. Then the pusher charges that the pushee's great-grandfather was a cross-eyed tarantula
- 2017 How To Teach Kids To Apologize Instead Of Commanding Them To Say, ‘I’m Sorry’, SimpleMost
- Then begins the awkward and often meaningless dance between the parents of the pusher and the parents of the pushee, both trying to do the right thing.
- 2018 "The Kid's Got Moxy", Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series
- Mayor Shelborne: "My son, there is noone I enjoy pushing around more than you."
- Gil Shelbourne: "Oh mayor dad, it's an honor to be the pushee."
- 1918 Letters by Victor Murdock to the Folks at Home Eagle Press
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