different between gushy vs pushy

English

Etymology

gush +? -y

Adjective

gushy (comparative gushier, superlative gushiest)

1. Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
2. (uncommon) Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.
   • 1994, Houghton Mifflin Company, Insight, Insight Guides, Insight Guide Hawaii, Insight Guides (?ISBN)

     Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...

   • 2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books (?ISBN), page 112:

     Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.

   • 2015, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1, Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division (?ISBN):

     Just as underground water wells up in a gushy spring, when a bore is sunk down to that depth, […]

Related terms

• gushiness
• gushily (adverb)

References

• Merriam-Webster Online

English

Etymology

From push +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

pushy (comparative pushier, superlative pushiest)

1. Overly assertive, bold or determined; aggressively ambitious.

   Parents are ruining school sports days by being pushy and overbearing, a survey suggests. BBC

Synonyms

• sharp-elbowed
• obtrusive

Derived terms

• pushily
• pushiness
• unpushy

Related terms

• push

Translations