- shove (v.)
- Old English scufan "push away" (class II strong verb; past tense sceaf, past participle scoven), from Proto-Germanic *skeub-, *skub- (cf. Old Norse skufa, Old Frisian skuva, Dutch schuiven, Old High German scioban, German schieben "to push, thrust," Gothic af-skiuban) "to put away," from PIE root *skeubh- "to shove" (cf. scuffle, shuffle, shovel; likely cognates outside Germanic include Lithuanian skubti "to make haste," skubinti "to hasten"). Related: Shoved; shoving. Replaced by push in all but colloquial and nautical usage. Shove off "leave" (1844) is from boating.
- shove (n.)
- c.1300; see shove (v.).