Shrove vs Shove - What's the difference?
shrove | shove |
(shrive)
(obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
(obsolete, by extension) To make merry.
To push, especially roughly or with force.
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, 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.
As verbs the difference between shrove and shove
is that shrove is (shrive) or shrove can be (obsolete) to join in the festivities of shrovetide while shove is to push, especially roughly or with force.As a noun shove is
a rough push.shrove
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* Shrovetide * Shrove Monday * Shrove Sunday * Shrove TuesdayVerb
(shrov)Anagrams
* English irregular simple past formsshove
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 .
