unpush

unpush verb: to push the chair of (someone) back from a table.

Verb

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

(nonstandard, rare, transitive) To push the chair of (someone) back from a table.
- If Nurse pushes her chair too near the table, she says—“Unpush me, Nurse.”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....
- Thus “unpush me” (thirty-sixth month) was Margaret’s way of indicating her desire that her chair should be pushed back from table.1924, Margaret Drummond, The Dawn of Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology, London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 156

One of my little subjects at 2:11 used “Unpush me,” when she wanted her chair pulled back from the table.1942, The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy, page 189:
Unable to push her chair back from the table, she said to her mother, “Mommy, will you unpush me?”1985, Observing the Language Learner, International Reading Association, →ISBN, page 49:

third-person singular present	unpushes
present participle	unpushing
past participle	unpushed
past	unpushed

From un- + push.

What does unpush mean?: Unpush means to push the chair of (someone) back from a table.
How do you use unpush in a sentence?: One of my little subjects at 2:11 used “Unpush me,” when she wanted her chair pulled back from the table.
What part of speech is unpush?: Unpush is a verb.
What is the past tense of unpush?: The past tense of unpush is unpushed.

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