shove
/ʃʌv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore."
- "I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schouven, sċūfan, *skeuban, *skeubaną, *skewbʰ-