Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of elbow
nounelbowing (plural elbowings)
plural elbowings
- A nudge or jostle with the elbow.
But in the elbowings of the noisy throng There is no calm for holiness like thine.
1849, Thomas Burbidge, Mnemeion1 more example
To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]
1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine
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