shog
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
Usage
What does shog mean?
Shog can be a verb meaning to shake or jolt, or a noun meaning a shake or jolt. It can also be used as a verb meaning to jog along.
Shog is used in the Scottish and British dialects, but very rarely.
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Example: The thunder was so loud that it shogged me awake!
Etymology
Origin of shog
1350–1400; Middle English shoggen (v.); perhaps akin to shock 1
Example Sentences
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When the Tinker in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Coxcomb" says, "Come, prithee, let's shog off," what possible allusion to shaking is there, except, perhaps, to "shaking stumps"?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Shog has nothing whatever to do with shaking, unless when Nym says to Pistol, "Will you shog off?" he may be said to have shaken him off.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Heth, thin, had I a whisp o' straw and a bite, wid this moonlight fer company, I'd not shog from out this the night to be King!
From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood
They shog on side by side—not home, but to the Doctor's house.
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles
Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
We shogged along to the next cover, Havoc as mild as milk.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot
During the afternoon we shogged steadily across the plain.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
Did not you take heed, quoth he, a little before he opened his mouth to speak, what a shogging, shaking, and wagging his head did keep?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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