What's the difference between shoving and shroving?
Shoving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shove
Example Sentences:
(1) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
(2) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(3) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(4) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
(5) Read more “Shoving an offer in front of our noses at the eleventh hour says a lot about how the secretary of state has handled this over the past three months,“ Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors, said.
(6) Podolski dispossesses Lahm in the box, with the aid of a subtle shove.
(7) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
(8) During the trial the officer accepted he was wrong in retrospect to have hit Tomlinson on the back of the leg and shoved him to the pavement as the 47-year-old walked slowly away from police lines on the evening of 1 April 2009, but told an often emotional trial that he believed at the time the action had been necessary.
(9) Check out Hamleys' predictions for this year's top Christmas toys , and you'll see a list dominated by pricey novelties: a breakdancing Mickey Mouse, a Barbie with an alarming fragile-looking articulated pony, a baby tablet that shoves "educational games" under your baby's nose.
(10) Updated at 3.23am BST 2.38am BST Another bout of Mitt Romney trying to ride over the moderator and just keep talking, and nearly pulls it off but Candy Crowley backs him down, but only after some verbal pushing and shoving.
(11) Welbeck climbs, gives Martin a gentle shove in the small of his back to ease the defender out of his road, and plants a header into the left-hand side of the goal.
(12) "A guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says 'Follow me outside immediately'," said the man, who was taken into a room for interrogation.
(13) "People were shoving each other, panicking, but the police kept attacking us."
(14) Tomlinson, 47, died shortly after being shoved to the ground by a riot policeman later identified as Harwood.
(15) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
(16) He did add a shove on a Colorado player in the aftermath, but the straight red was for the handling.
(17) The value of Doppler study and of arteriography is demonstrated in the present case of a woman with a five month history of pain and paraesthesias of the arm and hand, who shoved sudden occlusion of left humeral artery.
(18) Many died after spears were shoved into their vaginas.
(19) Violence-related morbidity data for adolescents from one community revealed that 50% of the male respondents experienced at least one pushing or shoving fight per year, and that by age 16 25% had already been threatened by a weapon.
(20) Most of us are not foolish enough to suppose that our electricity supplier specially packages up "green energy" for us, and shoves it down the wires.
Shroving
Definition:
(n.) The festivity of Shrovetide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Okonomiyaki – Japanese vegetable pancakes Okonomiyaki stands for "as you like it" – perfect for Shrove Tuesday when you could change that to "whatever you have" if you want to follow tradition and use up your stocks.
(2) The British-style pancakes served on Shrove Tuesday don't use one, whereas the breakfast variety served in the US do – typically baking powder, or whipped egg white, or both.
(3) This year, Shrove Tuesday, our Pancake Day, falls on 4 March.
(4) Like contributor Jenny Barrett, I rarely have room for more than lemon and sugar pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, but I could be tempted to add a few of these to my repertoire.