Meanings
plural pushees
- one who is pushed around, literally or metaphorically
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.
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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
1918, Letters by Victor Murdock to the Folks at Home, Eagle PressMayor 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."
2018, “The Kid's Got Moxy”, in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series
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pushee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pushee
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