shove

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoven, schouven, from Old English scūfan, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe), from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shŭv, IPA: /ʃʌv/, X-SAMPA: /SVv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past and past participle shoved)

1. To push, especially roughly or with force
2. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
3. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

• shover
• shove off
• shove-it
• push and shove
• shove ha'penny

Translations

push roughly

• Catalan: empentar (ca), empentejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推 (cmn) (tuī), 推搡 (cmn) (tuīsǎng)

• Esperanto: ŝovi (eo)
• Finnish: tuupata (fi), töniä (fi), tönäistä (fi)
• French: fourrer (fr)
• German: schubsen (de), schieben (de), drängen (de)
• Interlingue: pussar (ie)

• Italian: spintonare (it)
• Japanese: 押す (ja) (おす, osu), 押し込む (ja) (おしこむ, oshikomu) (push into)
• Maori: tute (mi)
• Portuguese: empurrar (pt)
• Russian: пихать (ru) (pixátʹ) impf., пихнуть (ru) (pixnútʹ) pf., толкать (ru) (tolkátʹ) impf., толкнуть (ru) (tolknútʹ) pf.; засовывать (ru) (zasóvyvatʹ) impf., совать (ru) (sovátʹ) impf., засунуть (ru) (zasúnutʹ) pf. (push into)
• Spanish: empujar (es)

Noun

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.
2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.

Derived terms

• when push comes to shove

Translations

rough push

• Catalan: empenta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推 (cmn) (tuī), 推搡 (cmn) (tuīsǎng)

• Finnish: tuuppaus (fi), tönäisy (fi)

• German: Schubs (de) m
• Russian: толчок (ru) (tolčók) m
• Spanish: empujón (es)