shog

American  

[shog, shawg] / ʃɒg, ʃɔg /

verb (used with object)

shogged, shogging

1. to shake; jolt.

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verb (used without object)

shogged, shogging

1. to jog along.

noun

1. a shake; jolt.

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.
Shog was the Dictionary.com Word of the Day on June 19, 2019!
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

This will be a rare shog to poor Sir Oliver; he will turn paper-colour; he will pray like a windmill.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Shall we shog off?24 the king will be gone from Southampton.

From King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre by Kean, Charles John

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

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

An’ gied the infant world a shog, ‘Maist ruin’d a’.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert