shove

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of giving a push to someone or something

   I gave the door a shove in order to close it.

2. 2
   verb

   push roughly

   The people pushed and shoved to get in line.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

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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