jog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
theater
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”).
Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
Inflected forms:
form: jogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
pos: noun
gloss: A sudden push or nudge.
pos: noun
examples: Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.
gloss: A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
pos: noun
examples: This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.
gloss: In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
pos: noun
gloss: To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: jog one's elbow
c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I,
Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see
Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee
That dances so divinely
When now was wasted more than half the night,
And the stars faded at approaching light;
Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid
Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.
gloss: To shake, stir or rouse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I tried desperately to jog my memory.
gloss: To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.
1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33,
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,
That he could never die while he could move,
So hung his destiny, never to rot,
While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,
When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]
That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,
Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong
And beaconed properly, would commend again
The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,
Though not their squeamish sons; […]
gloss: To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.
gloss: To cause to move at an energetic trot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to jog a horse
gloss: To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: ajog
jig-jog
jogathon
jog bra
jogger
jogging
joggle
jog on
jogpants
jog someone's memory
jogtrot
rejog
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