Word Meanings - HUSTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUSTLE)

• Cuff Slap
• box
• smack
• punch
• pummel
• hustle
• buffet
• Jostle
• Hustle
• push
• thrust
• jog
• jolt
• incommode

Related words: (words related to HUSTLE)

• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• INCOMMODE
  To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague.
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• JOSTLEMENT
  Crowding; hustling.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• SMACK
  A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
• HUSTLE
  To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay. (more info) Etym:
• INCOMMODEMENT
  The act of incommoded. Cheyne.
• PUNCHEON
  A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to
• BUFFETING
  1. A striking with the hand. 2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.
• PUNCHIN
  See PUNCHEON
• JOSTLE
  To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. "Bullies jostled him." Macaulay. Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
• PUMMEL
  See POMMEL
• PUNCH
  A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch
• BUFFET
  perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns
• THRUSTLE
  The throstle, or song thrust. When he heard the thrustel sing. Chaucer.
• THRUST
  Thrist. Spenser.
• SMACKING
  A sharp, quick noise; a smack. Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.