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jog

noun
/d͡ʒɒɡ/UK/d͡ʒɑɡ/US

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.

  1. derived from *skukkōn✻ — “to move, shake, tremble”
  2. derived from schoggen
  3. derived from schocken — “to jolt, bounce”
  4. inherited from shoggen
  5. inherited from joggen

Definitions

  1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

  2. A sudden push or nudge.

    • 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.

  3. A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the…

      In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

    2. To push slightly

      To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

      • 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.

    3. To shake, stir or rouse.

      • I tried desperately to jog my memory.

    4. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace

      To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.

      • Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

    5. To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

      • I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.

    6. To cause to move at an energetic trot.

      • to jog a horse

    7. To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

    8. Acronym of Jewish occupation government

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA