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  1. pushmi-pullyuadjective

    conflicting or contradictory.

  2. pushmi-pullyunoun

    a fictional animal with two heads at opposing ends of its body, in Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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  1. pushmi-pullyu

    This is a list of characters from the Doctor Dolittle series of children's books by Hugh Lofting and movies based on them. Most of the characters were introduced in the first book, the 1920 novel The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pushmi-pullyu in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pushmi-pullyu in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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