Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shake; agitate.
- To shake; jog; hence, with off or on, to move off or move on; be gone.
- noun A jog; a shock.
- noun An obsolete variant of
shock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun R. or Scot. A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.
- transitive verb R. or Scot. To shake; to shock.
- intransitive verb R. or Scot. To jog; to move on.
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- noun archaic
jolt ,shake (brisk movement) - verb archaic to
jolt orshake
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first _jog_ and _shog_ are identical in meaning and derivation, and may be traced, by whosoever chooses, to the Gothic _tiuhan_, (Germ, _ziehen_,) and are therefore near of kin to our _tug_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Nym says to Pistol, "Will you _shog_ off?" he may be said to have shaken him off.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton.
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An 'gied the infant warld a shog, [shake]' Maist ruin'd a '.
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Wherewith the two canons of the old school waddled away, arm in arm, and Bolt put out his head, leered at Ambrose, and bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folk's shoes.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Bolt put out his head, leered at Ambrose, and bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folk's shoes.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Well, will you shog — will you on — will you take sasine and livery? —
Woodstock 1855
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The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open.
The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808
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And whereas it may be objected, that it cannot be, that the meer imbodying of the _Æther_ between these bodies can be the cause, since the _Æther_ having a free passage alwayes, both through the Pores of the Glass, and through those of the Fluids, there is no reason why it should not make a separation at all times whilst it remains suspended, as when it is violently dis-joyned by a shog.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Other folks who live here are partial to “shog,” a mashup of the same first word and “fog.”
Something in the Air Christopher Collins 2021
knitandpurl commented on the word shog
"Shog is Elizabethan English: it means 'go away, move along'. Historically, it relates to such 'movement' words as shock and shake."
By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal, p 182
December 17, 2008
madmouth commented on the word shog
'shog along, then--buncha hooligans'
October 28, 2009