shove

shove

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English scūfan, 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.'

Pronunciation

• enPR: shŭv, IPA^(key): /ʃʌv/

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• Rhymes: -ʌv

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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

   • 1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     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.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• outshove
• push and shove
• shove ha'penny
• shove-it
• shovel
• shove off
• shover

Translations

push roughly

Albanian: rras (sq) Azerbaijani: dürtmək (into something), soxmaq (az) (into) Bikol Central: tuklang Bulgarian: бутам (bg) (butam), блъскам (bg) (blǎskam) Catalan: empentar (ca), empentejar (ca), espitjar (ca), empènyer (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 推 (zh) (tuī), 推搡 (zh) (tuīsǎng) Min Nan: long1, lang1, nng1 Danish: skubbe Dutch: schuiven (nl) Esperanto: ŝovi (eo) Finnish: tuupata (fi), töniä (fi) (frequentative), tönäistä (fi), tyrkätä (fi), tyrkkiä (fi) (frequentative) French: bousculer (fr), fourrer (fr), pousser (fr) Galician: cotifar, empurrar (gl) German: schubsen (de), schieben (de), drängen (de) Greek: Ancient: ὠθέω (ōthéō) Italian: spintonare (it) Japanese: 押す (ja) (おす, osu), 押し込む (おしこむ, oshikomu) (push into) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: dehf dan (ku), pal dan (ku) Latin: trūdō Lithuanian: brukti Low German: German Low German: schuven (nds) Maori: tute, ue, tōkiri Occitan: butassar, butar (oc), empénher (oc), empénger Old English: scūfan Polish: popchnąć (pl) Portuguese: empurrar (pt) Romanian: îmbrânci (ro) Russian: пиха́ть (ru) impf (pixátʹ), пихну́ть (ru) pf (pixnútʹ), толка́ть (ru) impf (tolkátʹ), толкну́ть (ru) pf (tolknútʹ); засо́вывать (ru) impf (zasóvyvatʹ), сова́ть (ru) impf (sovátʹ), засу́нуть (ru) pf (zasúnutʹ) (push into) Spanish: empujar (es), empellar (es)

Noun

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):

     I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Derived terms

• ice shove
• shove in the mouth
• when push comes to shove

Translations

rough push

Bulgarian: бутане (bg) n (butane), блъскане (bg) n (blǎskane) Catalan: empenta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 推 (zh) (tuī), 推搡 (zh) (tuīsǎng) Finnish: tuuppaus, tönäisy (fi) French: poussée (fr) f, bourrade (fr) Galician: empurrón m, baldón m, golondrón m, goldroada f, cutifón m, estrocho m, avantón m German: Schubs (de) m Occitan: butada f, borrada f, empencha (oc) f, butassada f Plautdietsch: Schups m Portuguese: empurrão (pt) Romanian: îmbrânceală (ro) Russian: толчо́к (ru) m (tolčók) Spanish: empujón (es) m, empellón m

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃəʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

Verb

shove

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of shave

Anagrams

• hoves