different between gusher vs pusher

English

Etymology

gush +? -er. Doublet of geyser.

Noun

gusher (plural gushers)

1. One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment).
2. An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping.

English

Etymology

From push +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???/

Noun

pusher (plural pushers)

1. Someone or something that pushes. [from 16th c.]
2. A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
3. (military slang) A girl or woman. [from 20th c.]
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 208:

     ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’

4. (colloquial) A drug dealer. [from 20th c.]
5. (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage. [from 20th c.]
6. A device that one pushes in order to transport a baby while on foot, such as a stroller or pram (as opposed to a carrier such as a front or back pack).
7. (tennis) A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
8. (historical, informal) A tolkach.
   • 1993, Bertram Silverman, Robert C. Vogt, Murray Yanowitch, Double Shift (page 249)

     Time-and-motion study meant objective (that is, testable) standards for setting the pace of work so that, when workers complained of speedup, it was now less out of outrage that the foreman was a "pusher" than that the system itself was being violated or manipulated.

   • 2017, Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today (page 35)

     Large factories use “pushers” who cajole, threaten, wine, dine, and bribe those in whose hands rests the power to allocate needed resources, machinery, raw materials, or spare parts. It is often the only way to cross the bureaucratic thicket, […]

Antonyms

• pushee

Derived terms

• coal pusher
• paper-pusher
• pen-pusher
• pencil-pusher
• penny pusher
• pixel pusher
• woodpusher

Translations

See also

• (aviation): tractor

Anagrams

• uphers

Italian

Etymology

English pusher.

Noun

pusher m or f (plural pushers)

1. pusher (drug dealer)

   Synonym: spacciatore