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shove

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ʃʌv/
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/ʃʌv/ · /ʃʊv/ · /ʃəʊv/

Definition of shove

9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)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.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)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. (intransitive)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. (slang)To pass (counterfeit money).
  5. To put hurriedly
  6. (form-of, obsolete, past)simple past of shave

noun

  1. A rough push.
    “I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.”
  2. (slang)An all-in bet.
  3. 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”).

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