joggle
Americanverb (used with object)
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joggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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joggled,
past participle, past
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joggling
present participle
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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)
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joggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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joggled,
past participle, past
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joggling
present participle
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
Now Dr. Burgess has structures so solidly poised that an earth quake could not joggle a butterfly on a pendulum.
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
Her sad-eyed mother wearily joggles the baby on her back, then pulls the child to her feet and shuffles along the track with the other refugees going south.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many chaplains have been joggled by such questions as: "How can you justify the Church's ownership of slum property?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
My poor guest will be joggled to bits after slamming into the ground like that, Werfel fretted.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
The 27-year-old data scientist, who is originally from Somerset, had taught himself juggling and then started joggling in 2018.
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
Jay and I had used this joggling board when we were little kids, spending hours on it in the blazing sun.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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