jog
noun
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L14951 on Wikidata ↗verb
- form of trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace
- jog one's memory- remind
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɒɡ/ / /d͡ʒɑɡ/
noun
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.
- An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
verb
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.
- 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”
- To shake, stir or rouse.
“I tried desperately to jog my memory.”
- 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.”
“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,”
- To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
“I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.”
- To cause to move at an energetic trot.
“to jog a horse”
- To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.