shove
/ʃʌv/ verb, noun
Also a form of shave
Forms shoves shoving shoved shoven
- verb (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
- verb (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
- verb (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
- verb (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
- verb To put hurriedly
- noun A rough push.
- noun (poker slang) An all-in bet.
- noun A forward movement of packed river-ice.
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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”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
- verb To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
- verb To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
- verb To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off. He grasped the oar,shoved from shore. Garth.
Etymology [OE. shoven, AS. scofian, fr. sc; akin to OFries. sk, D. schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk, sk, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. sq. root160. Cf. Sheaf a bundle of stalks, Scoop, Scuffle.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shove”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details