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shoving

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈʃʌvɪŋ//

The act of one who shoves.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shovepresent participle and gerund of shove

Etymology

From Middle English schovynge; equivalent to shove + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who shoves.

    We were soon separated by the pushings and shovings of the crowd.

Forms

plural
shovings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).