shove
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shove¹
- /ʃʌv/
- /ʃʊv/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌv
Where it comes from
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”).
verb shoves · shoving · shoved · shoven
- 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
- 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.
- To make an all-in bet.
- To pass (counterfeit money).
- To put hurriedly
noun shoves
- A rough push. I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
- An all-in bet.
- A forward movement of packed river-ice.
shove²
- /ʃəʊv/
Rhymes with -əʊv
verb
- simple past of shave
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: jostle, squeeze, thrust, stuff, hustle, push, throw, kick, cram, grow, retract, drive, stash, upset, jism, sink
Translations
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verb push roughly
| Español | empujar, empellar, empeller, empentar, cernear |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 押す osu, 押し込む oshikomu |
| 中文 | 推 tuī, 推搡 tuīsǎng |
| Português | empurrar |
| Français | bousculer, fourrer, pousser |
| Deutsch | schubsen, schieben, drängen |
| Italiano | spintonare |
| Română | îmbrânci, împinge |
| Русский | пиха́ть pixátʹ, пихну́ть pixnútʹ, толка́ть tolkátʹ, толкну́ть tolknútʹ, засо́вывать zasóvyvatʹ, сова́ть sovátʹ |
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title = {shove},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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