elbowing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of elbow

noun

1. A nudge or jostle with the elbow.

   “To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]”

   “But in the elbowings of the noisy throng There is no calm for holiness like thine.”