Synonyms for jostling
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : jos-uh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɒs əl |
Top 10 synonyms for jostling Other synonyms for the word jostling
Définition of jostling
Origin :- 1540s, justle, "to knock against," formed from jousten (see joust) + frequentative suffix -tle. The usual spelling 17c.-18c. was justle. An earlier meaning of the word was "to have sex with" (c.1400). Meaning "to contend for the best position or place" is from 1610s. Related: Jostled; jostling. As a noun from c.1600.
- verb bump, shake
- There was no scrambling or jostling for the hot water, no ill humour, no quarrelling.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- Her brain was crowded with jostling thoughts, her heart with jostling feelings and fears.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- And yet they were fighting their way, jostling each other in order to get first to the front.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- And it was there that Sandoz came upon him, amid the jostling.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- There's no occasion for jostling, there's room for everyone.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- That would be too much to look for in a jostling, market-day world like ours.
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- The jostling crowd brimmed her eyes; she walked as one in a mist.
- Extract from : « In the Border Country » by Josephine Daskam Bacon
- Anchors and cables were powerless to hold the crowded, jostling ships.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole
- Inside, the aisles were packed with a jostling, slowly moving throng.
- Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
- To land the guns through the jostling sea was the next task.
- Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
Antonyms for jostling
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