different between shove vs thwack

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

English

Etymology

From a variant (influenced by whack) of Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-Germanic *þakw?n? (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?g- (“to touch”). Cognate with Old Dutch þakol?n (“to stroke”), Old Norse þykkr (“a thwack, thump, blow”), Icelandic þjökka, þjaka (“to thwack, thump, beat”), Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”), Latin tang? (“touch”). More at tangent. It should also be noted that early foreign scribes of Middle English confused "th" and "wh", as did some writers. This disappeared for the most part once Middle English spelling had developed. Doublet of thack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thw?k, IPA^(key): /?wæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

thwack (plural thwacks)

1. The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
2. A heavy slapping sound.

Translations

Verb

thwack (third-person singular simple present thwacks, present participle thwacking, simple past and past participle thwacked)

1. To hit with a flat implement.
2. To beat.
3. To fill to overflow.

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