Shouting. All over but shouting, phr. (common).—Said of anything obviously finished.
1891. Lic. Vict. Gaz., 20 Mar. At Barnes it was estimated that he had a lead of 150 yards, and at this point, reached in 19 min. 50 sec., it looked all over but SHOUTING.
Shove, verb. (venery).—To copulate:
see Greens and Ride; as
subs. = the act of kind. Also (of
women) to get a shove in
one's blind- (or the bull's-)
eye. Shove-straight (or
Shove-devil) = the penis: see
Prick.
16[?]. Old Ballad, 'King Edward and Jane Shore' [Durfey, Pills (1707) iii. 20]. Joan could make them groan that ardently did love her, But Jane Shore . . . King Edward he did shove her.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 1. xi. His governesses . . . would very pleasantly pass their time in taking you know what between their fingers . . . One . . . would call it her roger . . . lusty live sausage, SHOVE-DEVIL, &c.
1707. Ward, Hud. Rediv. 11. ii. 21. If Holy Sister, wanting Grace, By Chance supplies a Harlot's Place, And takes a kind refreshing shove Upon the Bed of lawless Love.
Phrases. To shove for (or to be on the shove) = to move, to try for; to shove the moon = to remove secretly, by night: see Moon; to shove the tumbler = 'to be whipped at the cart's tail' (B. E. and Grose); a shove in the mouth = a dram (Grose); to shove the queer = to pass bad money; A shove in the eye = a punch in the eye: generic; to give the shove = to send packing; TO get the shove = to be dismissed: see Bag.
1708. Hall, Memoirs, 15. Those cast for Petit-larceny shove the tumbler.
1821. Egan, Life in London, 11. iii. I vish'd to be a little curl to Dirty Suke, . . . so I gov'd her a shove in the MOUTH.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford (1854), 9. 'Tom Zobyson is a good-for-naught,' returned the dame, and deserves to shove the tumbler; but, oh, my child be not too venturesome in taking up the sticks for a blowen.
1884. Clemens, Huck. Finn., xxxviii. So Jim he was sorry, and said he wouldn't behave so no more, and then me and Tom shoved for bed.
1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 50. There is always some fun afoot there, as will keep a chap fair on the shove.
1899. Whiteing, John St., iv. Mind your own bloomin' business, or I'll give yer a shove in the eye. Ibid. x. Did you get the shove to-day? Ibid. xxi. If it warn't ready, he give the shove to the 'ole shoot.
Shove-halfpenny (also Shove-[or Shovel-]
board, Shove-groat,
Slide-groat, Slide-thrift,
or Push-penny), subs.
phr.—A gambling game, played
on a table on which transverse
lines have been drawn rather more
than the width of a halfpenny
apart. The play consists in sending
a halfpenny by a smart stroke
of the palm from the end of the
table so as to make it rest in
the compartments formed by the
lines. [Ed. VI. shillings, as being
smooth and easily pushed, were
much in vogue as counters.]
1528. Stanihurst, Chron. of Ireland. When the lieutenant and he for their desporte were plaieing at slidegrote Or SHOOFLEBOARD.
1596. Jonson, Ev. Man in His Humour, iii. 2. Made it run as smooth off the tongue as a shove-groat shilling.
1598. Shakspeare, 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4, 206. Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling.
1630. Taylor, Travels of Twelve-pence [Nares]. With me [a shilling of Ed. VI.] the unthrifts every day, With my face downward, do at shove-board play.
