different between shove vs prod

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 1

From Middle English brodden, from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

prod (third-person singular simple present prods, present participle prodding, simple past and past participle prodded)

1. (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
2. (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
3. (transitive) To prick with a goad.

Translations

Noun

prod (plural prods)

1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
2. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
3. A poke.

   "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.

4. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

Derived terms

• cattle prod

Translations

Further reading

• Cattle prod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Shortened from production.

Noun

prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)

1. (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).

   We've hit ten million users in prod today.

2. (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.

   Check our BBS for the latest prods.

Anagrams

• dorp, drop

Old French

Noun

prod m (nominative singular proz)

1. (early Old French) Alternative form of pro