shove
verbnounverbcommon in dialogue
- //ʃʌv//
- //ʃʊv//
- //ʃəʊv//
To push, especially roughly or with force.
verb
- 1
To push, especially roughly or with force.
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all
The ship was anon shoven in the sea.
- 2
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
- 3
To make an all-in bet.
- 4
slangTo pass (counterfeit money).
- 5
To put hurriedly
Etymology
From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
noun
- 1
A rough push.
I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
- 2
slangAn all-in bet.
- 3
A forward movement of packed river-ice.
verb
- 1
Also a form of shaveobsoletesimple past of shave
Forms
- plural
- shoves
- past tense
- shoved
- past participle
- shoved, shoven
- present participle
- shoving
- third person singular
- shoves
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