Etymology

pushy

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Today it means: Overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious. Full definition →

English push ← Middle English pushen ← Middle French pousser
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The story

  1. Latinpulsō
  2. Old Frenchpoulser
  3. Middle Frenchpousser
  4. Middle Englishpushen
  5. Englishpush
  6. English todaypushy

From push + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.