shove
pronunciation
How to pronounce shove in British English:
UK [ʃʌv]
How to pronounce shove in American English:
US [ʃʌv]
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- Noun:
- the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something)
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- Verb:
- come into rough contact with while moving
- push roughly
- press or force
Word Origin
- shove
- shove: [OE] Shove was originally a perfectly respectable, neutral verb for ‘push forcefully, thrust’, but over the centuries it has come down in the world, acquiring connotations of rudeness. In common with German schieben and Dutch schuiven it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeuban. This was formed from a base which also produced English scuffle [16], sheaf [OE], shuffle [16], and indeed shovel [OE] (etymologically an ‘implement for shoving’), and may be distantly related to Lithuanian skubus ‘quick’ and Old Church Slavonic skubati ‘pull’.=> scuffle, sheaf, shovel, shuffle
- shove (v.)
- Old English scufan "push away, thrust, push with violence" (class II strong verb; past tense sceaf, past participle scoven), from Proto-Germanic *skeub-, *skub- (cognates: Old Norse skufa, Old Frisian skuva, Dutch schuiven, Old High German scioban, German schieben "to push, thrust," Gothic af-skiuban), from PIE root *skeubh- "to shove" (cognates: scuffle, shuffle, shovel; likely cognates outside Germanic include Lithuanian skubti "to make haste," skubinti "to hasten"). Related: Shoved; shoving. Replaced by push in all but colloquial and nautical usage. Shove off "leave" (1844) is from boating. Shove the queer (1859) was an old expression for "to counterfeit money." Shove it had an earlier sense of "depart" before it became a rude synonym for stick it (by 1941) with implied destination.
- shove (n.)
- c. 1300; see shove (v.).
Example
- 1. Why didn 't you give her a good shove ?
- 2. After months of " push and shove " between sudan and south sudan on the subject of oil exports logistics fees , it now appears that the chinese authorities have belatedly decided to get involved in mediation between juba and khartoum .
- 3. Is it morally permissible for ian to shove the man ?
- 4. People will always want to buy houses : they do not need a shove from subsidies .
- 5. Hit someone , hurt yourself , or push and shove others around ?