elbowing

elbowing

1. present participle and gerund of elbow

elbowing (plural elbowings)

1. A nudge or jostle with the elbow.
   • 1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine:

     To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […]

   • 1849, Thomas Burbidge, Mnemeion:

     But in the elbowings of the noisy throng
     There is no calm for holiness like thine.

• boweling