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
If perchance a trot, it was a mere shog, comfortable enough with a short seat and high cantle.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
Shog, shog, v.i. to shake, jog, move on, be gone.—v.t. to shake.—n. a jog, shock.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 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
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
During the afternoon we shogged steadily across the plain.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
We shogged along to the next cover, Havoc as mild as milk.
From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot
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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