English Explanatory Dictionary

pushmi-pullyu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner.
adj
  1. Conflicting or contradictory.
  2. in teleosemantics, being a representation with both indicative and imperative content.

Word forms

pushmi-pullyu pushmi-pullyus pushme-pullyou

Etymology

From Pushmi-pullyu, the name of a fictional animal with two heads at opposing ends of its body, along with very sharp horns on each side of the head, in Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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