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elbowings

elbowings is the plural of elbowing.

Meaning of elbowing

Noun

elbowing (plural elbowings)

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

Questions about elbowings

What is elbowings the plural of?
Elbowings is the plural of elbowing.

Words near elbowings in the dictionary

  1. elbower
  2. elbowers
  3. elbowful
  4. Elbowgate
  5. elbowing
  6. elbowings
  7. elbowless
  8. elbowlike
  9. elbowroom
  10. elbows
  11. elbows up

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