different between shove vs shoven

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sc?fan, from Proto-Germanic *skeuban? (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skuba? ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?v, IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.

   • I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Derived terms

• ice shove
• when push comes to shove

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Verb

shove

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of shave

Anagrams

• hoves

Middle English

Verb

shoven

1. Alternative form of schoven