shove

CEFRB2

/ʃʌv/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To push someone or something roughly.

  2. 02

    noun

    A strong push.

Examples

  • I think it's time for me to shove off.

  • If he had insulted me, I would have given him a shove.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To make an all-in bet.

  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 push, especially roughly or with force.

More examples

In context

  • Shove a stick up your ass.

  • The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

  • 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

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Origin

verb

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”).