schuiven
Meaning
-
- (ergative) to slide
- (ergative) to shove
- (Netherlands,informal,transitive) to yield, make money, to earn money (for someone)
- (transitive) to smoke
Concepts
shove
slide
slip
push
push along
glide
shuffle
enclose
insert
introduce
put away
put in
stick
stow
stuff
scroll
wheel
slew
glissade
lay upon
Frequency
Hyphenated as
schui‧ven
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsxœy̯və(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch schuven, from Old Dutch *scūvan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. Doublet of sjouwen.
New
schuif
-
- (masculine) drawer
- (masculine) bolt, to lock a door etc.
- (masculine) slide, moving or moveable
- (masculine) shove
- (masculine) something shoven; a portion of sorts
- (masculine,slang) mouth
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