/ʃʌv/
OriginFrom Middle English schoven, shoven, 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”).
- transitiveTo 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.”
- intransitiveTo 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.”
- To make an all-in bet.
- slangTo pass (counterfeit money).
- To put hurriedly
- form-of, obsolete, pastsimple past of shave
- A rough push.
“I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.”
- slangAn all-in bet.
- A forward movement of packed river-ice.
Formsshoves(present, singular, third-person) · shoving(participle, present) · shoved(past) · shave(obsolete, past) · shoved(participle, past) · shave(obsolete, participle, past) · shoven(obsolete, participle, past) · shoves(plural)