pousser, v.a., to push, to give a push to, to thrust, to give a thrust to, to shove, to shove on, to drive, to drive on, to impel; to strike, to throw, to hit; to carry on, to extend, to forward; to send forth, to shoot forth, to put out, to put forth (of plants); to urge, to stir up, to provoke, to impel, to incite, to instigate; to bring forward, to assist forward, to help on; to utter (a groan); to heave, to fetch (a sigh). — en avant; to push on. — dehors; to thrust out. — un cheval; to urge on a horse. — le temps avec l’épaule; (prov.) to endeavor to gain time. — la porte au nez de quelqu’un; to slam the door in any one’s face. — le dé; to throw the dice. — une botte; (fenc.) to make a thrust. — un mur plus loin; to carry a wall further on. — un raisonnement trop loin; to carry an argument too far. — à bout; to provoke beyond endurance. — une affaire à bout; to carry a thing to a successful issue or to go through with anything. — une tranchée; to carry forward a trench. — des cris; to utter cries. — des soupirs; to heave sighs. Vous me poussez trop; you urge me too far. C’est un tel qui l’a poussé; it was so and so who egged him on. — sa pointe; to pursue one’s point. On l’a poussé à se battre; they set him on to fight. — quelqu’un de questions; to badger, to ply any one with questions. Les arbres commencent à — des boutons; the trees are beginning to put forth buds.
se pousser, v.r., to push forward, to push one’s self forward, to be pushed forward, to be pushed, to be carried; to push forward one another. Se — de nourriture; to eat too much.
pousser, v.n., to sprout, to sprout forth, to shoot, to shoot forth (of plants); to be broken-winded (of horses); to grow (of the hair, nails); to push forward, to push on, to go on; to bulge, to jut out. Les blés poussent déjà; the corn is already coming up. Ce mur pousse en dehors; this wall bulges outwards. Poussons jusqu’à la forêt; let us push forward, or on, as far as the forest.
poussette, n.f., pushpin (game).
pousseu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., pusher, shover; utterer (of sighs).
poussier, n.m., coal-dust; gunpowder-dust; turf-dust.
poussière, n.f., dust, powder; (bot.) pollen, male-seed; (of water) spray. Nuage de —; cloud of dust. — de la mer; spray. Réduire en —; to reduce to dust. Jeter de la — aux yeux de quelqu’un; to throw dust into any one’s eyes. Tirer quelqu’un de la —; to raise any one from the depths of poverty. Il fait de la —; it is dusty, the roads are dusty.
poussiéreu-x, -se, adj., dusty.
poussif, n.m., (pop.) pursy fellow or creature.
poussi-f, -ve, adj., (pop.) pursy; (vet.) short-winded, broken-winded.