unpush

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ push.

Verb

unpush (third-person singular simple present unpushes, present participle unpushing, simple past and past participle unpushed)

1. (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To push the chair of (someone) back from a table.
   • 1881, Ernest Legouvé, “Two Diplomatic Mothers. To Madame Vigo Roussillon.”, in Emily Mills, transl., Our Sons and Daughters: Scenes and Studies from Family Life, volume I, London: Remington and Co., page 3:

     If Nurse pushes her chair too near the table, she says—“Unpush me, Nurse.”

   • 1924, Margaret Drummond, The Dawn of Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology, London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 156:

     Thus “unpush me” (thirty-sixth month) was Margaret’s way of indicating her desire that her chair should be pushed back from table.

   • 1942, The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy, page 189:

     One of my little subjects at 2:11 used “Unpush me,” when she wanted her chair pulled back from the table.

   • 1985, Observing the Language Learner, International Reading Association, →ISBN, page 49:

     Unable to push her chair back from the table, she said to her mother, “Mommy, will you unpush me?”