Shove vs Hove - What's the difference?
shove | hove |
To push, especially roughly or with force.
*, chapter=12
, title= To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .
* Garth
To make an all-in bet.
(label) To pass (counterfeit money).
A rough push.
* Jonathan Swift
(poker slang) An all-in bet.
To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.7:
*:As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before.
To wait, linger.
*:
To move (on) or (by).
To remain; delay.
To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
(intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To rise.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(nautical) (heave)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) (heave)
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII:
As verbs the difference between shove and hove
is that shove is to push, especially roughly or with force while hove is to remain suspended in air, water etc; to float, to hover or hove can be (transitive|now|chiefly|dialectal) to raise; lift; hold up or hove can be (nautical) (heave).As a noun shove
is a rough push.shove
English
Verb
(shov)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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}}
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
Derived terms
* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'pennyNoun
(en noun)- I rested and then gave the boat another shove .
Derived terms
* when push comes to shovehove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hov)- Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
Etymology 2
From (etyl) hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of ). More at (l).Verb
(hov)- Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe , / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)- Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
