pushful
adj/ˈpʊʃfʊl/
Etymology From push + -ful.
1
Energetic; pushy.
- 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.1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy:
- 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.1908, John F. Runciman, Haydn:
2 more examples
- 'Twas not by barking mortars that the pushful CAESAR scored; He trusted close formations and the silent stabbing sword.1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917:
- Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman […]1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 189:
- Derived terms
- pushfully, pushfulness