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shove

Pronunciation: /ʃʌv/

The English word “shove” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To push, especially roughly or with force.
  2. To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
  3. To make an all-in bet.
  4. To pass (counterfeit money).
  5. To put hurriedly

noun

  1. A rough push.
  2. An all-in bet.
  3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

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”).

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