nudge

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A gentle push.
2. (Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
3. The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
4. The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.

Verb

1. (transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
2. (transitive) To near or come close to something.
3. (transitive) To move slightly.

Concepts

pousser

coup de coude

déplacer

grogner

jogger

légèrement

râler

récriminer

ronchonner

rouspéter

tapoter

titiller

donner un coup de coude

maugréer

persuader gentiment

pousser du coude

maronner

aiguiller

donner une légère bourrade

bousculer

Synonymes

poke

push

jog

elbow

prod

shove

thrust

jostle

jab

bump

shake

🫨

jolt

touch

poke at

knock

strike

prompt

joggle

dig

nag

rub

finger

pat

shoulder

pick at

plug

pod

pound

💷

press

press forward

propel

pushing

ram

🐏

scratch

send

shift

shoot

sideswipe

snuggle

speckled

squeeze

stab

stick

stimulus

stuff

tamp

tap

touch lightly

tweak

twitch

Traductions

anstoßen

cutucar

toestoten

aanstoten

αγκωνιά

een duw geven

empujar

anstupsen

schubsen

cutucão

spingere

stupsen

σκουντώ

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/nʌd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à norvégien: nugge

Appartenant à islandais: nugga

Appartenant à grec ancien: κνάω

Appartenant à anglais: acnestis

Appartenant à écossais: nodge

Appartenant à saterlandais: Nukke

Appartenant à Middle Low German: nucke

Appartenant à moyen anglais: nuchen

In summary

Circa 17th century, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian nugge, nyggje (“to push, rub, shove”), Icelandic nugga (“to rub, massage”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), source of English acnestis).
Compare also Scots nodge (“to push, poke, nudge”), knidge (“to push, squeeze”), gnidge (“to rub, press, squeeze, bruise”), and knudge (“to squeeze, press down with the knuckles”), Saterland Frisian Nukke, Nuk (“a sudden push”), Middle Low German nucke, nücke, gnücke (“a sudden push, shock, impetus”). Compare also dialectal nuch (“to tremble”), Middle English nuchen (“to tremble”).