shove
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From 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.'
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[edit]shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)
- (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- The ship was anon shoven in the sea.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (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.
- (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
- (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
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[edit]push roughly
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Noun
[edit]shove (plural shoves)
- 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, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
- I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
- (poker slang) An all-in bet.
- A forward movement of packed river-ice.
Derived terms
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[edit]rough push
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Etymology 2
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[edit]shove
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