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WOTD – 12 April 2009

Etymology

Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxtā (“next to”), from iungō (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust +‎ -le.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒs.əl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑ.səl/
Audio (US): (file)
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -ɒsəl

Verb

jostle (third-person singular simple present jostles, present participle jostling, simple past and past participle jostled)

(transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners may Naturally be Expected to Produce”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 434:
  Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], “Chapter 12”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC, page 214:
  It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […]
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 370-371:
  […] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]
- 1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 63]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 83:
  His locks […] / […] like a juicy and jostling shock / Of bluebells sheaved in May
(intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
- 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The egotist considers”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book I (The Romantic Egotist), page 119:
  Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.
- 2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Allow the person in front of you sufficient space to turn around from the bar with their drinks. Do not jostle past them.
(transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 114:
  […] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
(intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
- 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 22:
  Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,^[2]
  […] Our statecraft, our learning
  
  Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning
  
  Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.
- 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 47:
  The relative popularity of the Kyle of Lochalsh service is unsurprising, given how the famous route jostles with the West Highland Line for the title of Scotland's (and indeed the world's) most scenic rail journey.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

Translations

bump into or brush against while in motion

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: бутам (bg) (butam), блъскам (bg) (blǎskam)
Catalan: empentar (ca), empentejar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 擠／挤 (zh) (jǐ), 推搡 (zh) (tuīsǎng)
Czech: strkat
Dutch: omverduwen, bruuskeren (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: törmätä (fi)
French: bousculer (fr)
Georgian: დაჯახება (daǯaxeba), შეჯახება (šeǯaxeba)
German: drängeln (de)
Japanese: 押し合う (おしあう, oshiau)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Maori: tutetute, ātute, taututetute
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: bostchuler (Jersey)
Occitan: butassar
Polish: trącać (pl) impf, trącić (pl) pf
Portuguese: esbarrar (pt)
Russian: пиха́ться (ru) impf (pixátʹsja), толка́ться (ru) impf (tolkátʹsja)
Scottish Gaelic: put
Swedish: knuffa (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: itelemek (tr)
Tày: ắm
Ukrainian: штовхатися (štovxatysja), зіштовхуватися (zištovxuvatysja)
Vietnamese: chen (vi)

move through by pushing and shoving

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: пробивам си път (probivam si pǎt)
Czech: tlačit (cs) se
Dutch: verdringen (nl), drummen (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tunkea (fi)
French: se bousculer (fr)
Georgian: ხელის კვრა (xelis ḳvra), ბიძგება (biʒgeba), გაძრომა (gaʒroma)
German: drängeln (de)
Ingrian: tuppia
Italian: spingere (it), farsi largo
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Polish: rozpychać się impf, rozepchać się pf, rozepchnąć się pf
Russian: пропи́хиваться (ru) impf (propíxivatʹsja), прота́лкиваться (ru) impf (protálkivatʹsja)
Scottish Gaelic: uillnich
Spanish: codear (es), empujar (es)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: itelemek (tr)
Ukrainian: проштовхуватися (proštovxuvatysja)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

be close to or in physical contact with

Czech: tlačit (cs) se

contend or vie in order to acquire something

Czech: tahat (cs) se, drát se impf, prát se (cs) impf
Finnish: tavoitella (fi)

pick or attempt to pick pockets

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} dispuŝi
French: ^{(please verify)} se bousculer (fr)
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} తోసుకొను (tōsukonu)

Noun

jostle (plural jostles)

The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,^[3]
  I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]
The action of a jostling crowd.
- 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,^[4]
  For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.

Translations

act of jostling

Bulgarian: бутане (bg) n (butane), блъскане (bg) n (blǎskane)
Catalan: empenta (ca) f
Czech: šťouchnutí n, vražení n, strčení n
French: bousculade (fr)
German: Drängelei f, Gedrängel (de) n
Plautdietsch: Bucks m

action of a jostling crowd

Bulgarian: блъсканица (bg) f (blǎskanica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 摩肩接踵 (zh) (mójiānjiēzhǒng), 推推搡搡 (zh) (tuītui-sǎngsǎng)
Czech: strkanice f
French: cohue (fr)
German: Gedränge (de) n, Rempelei f
Russian: да́вка (ru) f (dávka), толкотня́ (ru) f (tolkotnjá), су́толока (ru) f (sútoloka), толку́чка (ru) f (tolkúčka)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Telugu: ^{(please verify)} తోపులాట (te) (tōpulāṭa)

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 # {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To [[bump]] into or [[brush]] against while in motion; to push [[aside]].
+#* {{RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women|page=434|passage=Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they '''jostle''' against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.}}
-#* '''1792''', ''{{w|Mary Wollstonecraft}}'', ''{{w|A Vindication of the Rights of Woman}}'', London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,<sup>[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903441.0001.000]</sup>
+#* {{RQ:Isaac Taylor Saturday Evening|page=214|chapter=[https://archive.org/details/saturdayevenin00tayl Chapter 12]|text=It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually '''jostling''' each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space {{...}}}}
-#*: Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they '''jostle''' against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.
+#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=1|chapter=3|pages=370-371|text={{...}} when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a [[lascar|Lascar]]. {{...}} Bullies '''jostled''' him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. {{...}}}}
-#* '''1832''', {{w|Isaac Taylor}}, ''Saturday Evening'', Chapter 12, p. 214,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/saturdayevenin00tayl]</sup>
-#*: It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually '''jostling''' each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space {{...}}
-#* '''1849''', {{w|Thomas Babington Macaulay}}, ''{{w|The History of England from the Accession of James the Second}}'', London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 370-371,<sup>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006301679]</sup>
-#*: {{...}} when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a [[lascar|Lascar]]. {{...}} Bullies '''jostled''' him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. {{...}}
 #* {{RQ:Hopkins Poems|poem=63|page=83|passage=His locks {{...}} / {{...}} like a juicy and '''jostling''' shock / Of bluebells sheaved in May}}
 # {{lb|en|intransitive}} To move through by [[pushing and shoving]].
+#* {{RQ:Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise|chapter=The egotist considers|page=119|passage=Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, '''jostled''' behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.}}
-#* '''1920''', {{w|F. Scott Fitzgerald}}, ''{{w|This Side of Paradise}}'', Book One, Chapter 3,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/805/805-h/805-h.htm]</sup>
+#* {{quote-journal|en-GB|author=Tony Naylor|title=The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses|work=The Guardian|date=2018-06-06|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/06/the-new-rules-of-pub-etiquette-dont-flirt-with-bar-staff-or-steal-the-glasses|issn=0261-3077|passage=Allow the person in front of you sufficient space to turn around from the bar with their drinks. Do not '''jostle''' past them.}}
-#*: Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, '''jostled''' behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.
 # {{lb|en|transitive}} To be [[close]] to or in [[physical]] [[contact]] with.
+#* {{RQ:Darwin Origin of Species|page=114|text={{...}} the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus '''jostle''' each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.}}
-#* '''1859''', {{w|Charles Darwin}}, ''{{w|On the Origin of Species}}'', London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/darwin-online_1859_Origin_F373]</sup>
-#*: {{...}} the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus '''jostle''' each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
 # {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[contend]] or [[vie]] in order to [[acquire]] something.
+#* {{RQ:Scott Bride of Lammermoor|volume=I|chapter=1|page=22|text=Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which '''jostled''' and struggled for notice and preferment.}}
-#* '''1819''', {{w|Walter Scott}}, ''{{w|The Bride of Lammermoor}}'', in ''{{w|Tales of My Landlord}}'', Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/talesofmylandlor31scot]</sup>
-#*: Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which '''jostled''' and struggled for notice and preferment.
 #* '''1917''', {{w|Rudyard Kipling}}, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in ''A Diversity of Creatures'', London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,<sup>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010943658]</sup>
 #*: {{...}} Our statecraft, our learning
 #*: Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning
 #*: Whither they mirthfully hastened as '''jostling''' for honour.
+#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2021 October 20|author=Paul Stephen|title=Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line|journal=RAIL|issue=942|page=47|text=The relative popularity of the Kyle of Lochalsh service is unsurprising, given how the famous route '''jostles''' with the West Highland Line for the title of Scotland's (and indeed the world's) most scenic rail journey.}}
 # {{lb|en|dated|slang}} To [[pick]] or attempt to pick [[pockets]].
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 * Basque: {{t-needed|eu}}
 * Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|бутам}}, {{t+|bg|блъскам}}
+* Catalan: {{t+|ca|empentar}}, {{t+|ca|empentejar}}
 * Chinese:
-*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|擠|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|挤|tr=jǐ|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|推搡|tr=tuīsǎng|sc=Hani}}
+*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|擠|tr=jǐ}}, {{t+|cmn|推搡|tr=tuīsǎng}}
 * Czech: {{t|cs|strkat}}
 * Dutch: {{t|nl|omverduwen}}, {{t+|nl|bruuskeren}}
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 * Georgian: {{t|ka|დაჯახება}}, {{t|ka|შეჯახება}}
 * German: {{t+|de|drängeln}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Japanese: {{t|ja|押し合う|tr=おしあう, oshiau|sc=Jpan}}
 * Khmer: {{t-needed|km}}
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 * Mongolian: {{t-needed|mn}}
 * Norman: {{t|nrf|bostchuler}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}
+* Occitan: {{t|oc|butassar}}
 * Polish: {{t+|pl|trącać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|trącić|pf}}
 * Portuguese: {{t+|pt|esbarrar}}
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 * Thai: {{t-needed|th}}
 * Turkish: {{t+|tr|itelemek}}
-* Vietnamese: {{t-needed|vi}}
+* Tày: {{t|tyz|ắm}}
+* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|штовхатися}}, {{t|uk|зіштовхуватися}}
+* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|chen}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
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 * Georgian: {{t|ka|ხელის კვრა}}, {{t|ka|ბიძგება}}, {{t|ka|გაძრომა}}
 * German: {{t+|de|drängeln}}
+* Ingrian: {{t|izh|tuppia}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Italian: {{t+|it|spingere}}, {{t|it|farsi largo}}
 * Khmer: {{t-needed|km}}
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 * Thai: {{t-needed|th}}
 * Turkish: {{t+|tr|itelemek}}
+* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|проштовхуватися}}
 * Vietnamese: {{t-needed|vi}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
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 {{trans-top|be close to or in physical contact with}}
 * Czech: {{t+|cs|tlačit}} se
-{{trans-mid}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
 {{trans-top|contend or vie in order to acquire something}}
-* Czech: {{t+|cs|tahat}} se
+* Czech: {{t+|cs|tahat}} se, {{t|cs|drát se|impf}}, {{t+|cs|prát se|impf}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Finnish: {{t+|fi|tavoitella}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
 {{trans-top|pick or attempt to pick pockets}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
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 * Esperanto: {{t-check|eo|dispuŝi}}
 * French: {{t+check|fr|bousculer|alt=se bousculer}} <!-- was "se [[bousculer]]" - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see [[User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing]] -->
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Telugu: {{t-check|te|తోసుకొను}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
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 {{trans-top|act of jostling}}
 * Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|бутане|n}}, {{t+|bg|блъскане|n}}
+* Catalan: {{t+|ca|empenta|f}}
+* Czech: {{t|cs|šťouchnutí|n}}, {{t|cs|vražení|n}}, {{t|cs|strčení|n}}
 * French: {{t+|fr|bousculade}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * German: {{t|de|Drängelei|f}}, {{t+|de|Gedrängel|n}}
 * Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Bucks|m}}
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 * Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|блъсканица|f}}
 * Chinese:
-*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|摩肩接踵|tr=mójiānjiēzhǒng|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|推推搡搡|tr=tuītui-sǎngsǎng|sc=Hani}}
+*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|摩肩接踵|tr=mójiānjiēzhǒng}}, {{t+|cmn|推推搡搡|tr=tuītui-sǎngsǎng}}
+* Czech: {{t|cs|strkanice|f}}
 * French: {{t+|fr|cohue}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * German: {{t+|de|Gedränge|n}}, {{t|de|Rempelei|f}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|да́вка|f}}, {{t+|ru|толкотня́|f}}, {{t+|ru|су́толока|f}}, {{t+|ru|толку́чка|f}}
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 {{checktrans-top}}
 * Telugu: {{t+check|te|తోపులాట}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
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