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jostle
English
Etymology
Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxt? (“next to”), from iung? (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust +? -le.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??s.?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??.s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Verb
jostle (third-person singular simple present jostles, present participle jostling, simple past and past participle jostled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,[1]
- Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, Chapter 12, p. 214,[2]
- It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […]
- 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 370-371,[3]
- […] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,[1]
- (intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,[4]
- Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,[4]
- (transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,[5]
- […] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,[5]
- (intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
- 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,[6]
- Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,[7]
- […] Our statecraft, our learning
- Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning
- Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.
- 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,[6]
- (dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
Translations
See also
- justle
- joust
Noun
jostle (plural jostles)
- The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,[8]
- I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,[8]
- The action of a jostling crowd.
- 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,[9]
- For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.
- 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,[9]
Translations
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lurch
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: lûrch, IPA(key): /l?t??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?
Etymology 1
Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lacher (“to let go”).
Noun
lurch (plural lurches)
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
Translations
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Translations
See also
- leave someone in the lurch
- Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Etymology 2
From Latin lurc?re.
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
- Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
Etymology 3
From French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.
Noun
lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
- August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
- Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
- August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
Verb
lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)
- (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
- Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
- (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- churl
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