jostle

jostle englannista suomeksi

1. töniä

2. tungeksia

3. töniminen

0. Verbi

1. törmätä

2. tunkea

3. tavoitella

3. Substantiivi

jostle englanniksi

1. To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

2. (RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women)

3. (RQ:Isaac Taylor Saturday Evening)

4. (RQ:Macaulay History of England) 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. (..)

5. (RQ:Hopkins Poems) / (..) like a juicy and jostling shock / Of bluebells sheaved in May

6. To move through by and shoving.

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8. To be close to or in physical contact with.

9. (RQ:Darwin Origin of Species) 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.

10. To contend or vie in order to acquire something.

11. (RQ:Scott Bride of Lammermoor)

12. 1917, (w), “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in ''A Diversity of Creatures'', London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010943658

(..) Our statecraft, our learning

Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning

Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.

13. (quote-journal)

14. To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

15. The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.

16. 1722, (w), ''(w)'', London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,https://archive.org/details/lifeandadventur15defogoog

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 (..)

17. The action of a jostling crowd.

18. 1865, (w) (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), ''The Chimney-Corner'', Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012290709

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.