shove-ha'penny

1. 1.

   a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark

   Synonymsshovel boardshove-halfpenny

   Broaderboard game

   United Kingdom

Questions about shove-ha'penny

What does shove-ha'penny mean?

shove-ha'penny means "a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark".

How many syllables are in shove-ha'penny?

shove-ha'penny has 5 syllables: sho-ve--ha'-pen-ny. The stress falls on "ha'".

What is another word for shove-ha'penny?

Close synonyms include shovel board, shove-halfpenny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shove-ha'penny a common word?

shove-ha'penny is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.