unpush

present singular third person unpushes · participle present unpushing · participle past unpushed · past unpushed

1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo push the chair of (someone) back from a table.

   If Nurse pushes her chair too near the table, she says—“Unpush me, Nurse.”

   1881, Ernest Legouvé, “Two Diplomatic Mothers. To Madame Vigo Roussillon.”, in Emily Mills, transl., Our Sons and Daughters: Scenes and Studies from Family Life, volume I, London: Remington and Co., page 3

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   Thus “unpush me” (thirty-sixth month) was Margaret’s way of indicating her desire that her chair should be pushed back from table.

   1924, Margaret Drummond, The Dawn of Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology, London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 156

   One of my little subjects at 2:11 used “Unpush me,” when she wanted her chair pulled back from the table.

   1942, The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy, page 189

   Unable to push her chair back from the table, she said to her mother, “Mommy, will you unpush me?”

   1985, Observing the Language Learner, International Reading Association, →ISBN, page 49