joggle
Americanverb (used with object)
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to shake slightly; move to and fro, as by repeated jerks; jiggle.
She joggled the key in the lock a couple of times before getting the door open.
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to cause to shake or totter as by a sudden, slight push; jostle.
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to join or fasten by fitting a projection into a recess.
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to fit or fasten with dowels.
verb (used without object)
noun
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the act of joggling.
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a slight shake or jolt.
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a moving with jolts or jerks.
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a projection on one of two joining objects fitting into a corresponding recess in the other to prevent slipping.
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Carpentry. an enlarged area, as of a post or king post, for supporting the foot of a strut, brace, etc.
verb
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to shake or move (someone or something) with a slightly jolting motion
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(tr) to join or fasten (two pieces of building material) by means of a joggle
noun
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the act of joggling
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a slight irregular shake; jolt
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a joint between two pieces of building material by means of a projection on one piece that fits into a notch in the other; dowel
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a shoulder designed to take the thrust of a strut or brace
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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jogglesimple
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jogglessimple
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have joggledperfect
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has joggledperfect
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am jogglingprogressive
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are jogglingprogressive
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is jogglingprogressive
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have been jogglingperfect progressive
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has been jogglingperfect progressive
Past
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joggledsimple
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had joggledperfect
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was jogglingprogressive
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were jogglingprogressive
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had been jogglingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of joggle
Explanation
To joggle is to jostle or rhythmically shake something. The bathroom door sticks sometimes, but if you joggle the handle it'll open! From its sound, you'd think that joggle is a combination of "jiggle" and "jog," but it actually predates jiggle by more than 300 years. When you joggle a baby on your lap, you bounce it gently, and if you find yourself nervously joggling your foot during an interview, you're shaking it. As a noun, joggle has an entirely different meaning: it's a kind of dowel or tooth used to hold bricks or stones together in a wall.
Example Sentences
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Scott's personal best time for a half marathon is one hour and 22 minutes - and he can joggle the same distance in one hour and 27 minutes.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
For one fascinating stretch, the joggler will joggle in relative silence.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016
The other bundled Vive must-try, Job Simulator, lets you wing donuts at a frowny floating computer or joggle 2-liter bottles of soda until they detonate.
From Time ● Apr. 5, 2016
These were mathematical immensities to joggle even a figure-jaded populace.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Adam, you embarrass me. Adam, be careful. Don’t joggle me, it hurts.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash?
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2012
As Angie joggles over the cobblestones on her Vespa, the baker watches her out of sight while absently patting two round loaves of bread, and the farmers' furrows develop empathetic curves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually, however, she joggles down to productive domesticity, mindful that when Baby does arrive, she will have her own night club.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even at that, nation joggles nation, period elbows period, continent nudges continent, and style wars with style.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gives him a big kiss on his cheek, joggles him up and down, tucks him into the carriage, snaps up the waterproof carriage cover.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
It smacked people with an eerie jolt, joggled them into befuddled laughter or downright creeped them out.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
In the South, Georgia showed no mercy against Mercer, 26-7; Vanderbilt made merry with Maryland, 39-20; Georgia Tech joggled Oglethorpe, 19-7.
From Time Magazine Archive
One afternoon last fortnight a battered flivver joggled and clattered over a desert road leading into Tonopah, Nev. Two dusty boys of 19 sat on the seat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was lightweight and joggled easily, making me laugh out loud.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
"I have the joggling bug now, absolutely," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
When I talk to David Lockwood, a graphic designer from Glasgow who used to work nine‑to‑five in an office before the Covid outbreak, he is joggling his 20-week-old son on his lap.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2021
Google Maps is helpful for joggling memory, but often I found myself blocked in a scene because I couldn’t remember what a particular street corner sounded or smelled like at a particular time of day.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
It doesn’t sound easy, but with all the disruption happening in the industry, I just don’t envision long-term survival any other way other than a joggling act of sustaining and disrupting.
From Forbes ● May 15, 2015
I was too tall for the joggling board now, unless I held my feet up high.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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