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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”).

derived from *skewbʰ-✻
inherited from *skeubaną✻
inherited from *skeuban✻
inherited from sċūfan
inherited from schouven

Definitions

1
To push, especially roughly or with force.
- 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
- The ship was anon shoven in the sea.
2
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
To make an all-in bet.
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1. To pass (counterfeit money).
2. To put hurriedly
3. 6
  A rough push.
  - I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
4. An all-in bet.
5. A forward movement of packed river-ice.
6. simple past of shave

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Derived

duckshove, outshove, push and shove, shovable, shoveable, shove about, shove around, shoveboard, shove down, shovegroat, shove ha'penny, shove it, shove-it, shove it up your ass, shovel, shove off, shove on, shove over, shover, shove something down someone's throat, shove the queer, shove up, shuffleboard, tell someone where to shove it, unshoved, ice shove, shove in the mouth, shove knife, shovey, when push comes to shove

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