shove

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.'

• enPR: shŭv, IPA^(key): /ʃʌv/

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• Rhymes: -ʌv

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; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     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).

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, 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃəʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

shove

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of shave

• hoves