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pushme-pullyou

pushme-pullyou is the alternative form of pushmi-pullyu.

Meaning of pushmi-pullyu

Noun

pushmi-pullyu (plural pushmi-pullyus)

  1. A person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner.
    • This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political2015 April 21, Julie Burchill, “Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor”, in The Spectator

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Forms of pushme-pullyou

pluralpushme-pullyous

Questions about pushme-pullyou

What is pushme-pullyou the alternative form of?
Pushme-pullyou is the alternative form of pushmi-pullyu.

Words near pushme-pullyou in the dictionary

  1. pushknees
  2. pushlet
  3. pushlets
  4. Pushmataha
  5. Pushmataha County
  6. pushme-pullyou
  7. pushme-pullyous
  8. pushmepullyou
  9. pushmi-pullyu
  10. pushmi-pullyus
  11. pushmobile

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