shove
noun
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L27048 on Wikidata ↗verb
- push harshly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʃʌv/ / /ʃʊv/ / /ʃəʊv/
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- A rough push.
“I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.”
- An all-in bet.
- A forward movement of packed river-ice.
verb
- simple past of shave