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shog.

jolt, shake (brisk movement)

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃɒɡ/
  1. jolt, shake (brisk movement)

    archaic
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-West Germanic *skokkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock.

verb/ʃɒɡ/
  1. to jolt or shake

    ambitransitive · archaic
  2. to depart; to go.

    archaic
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-West Germanic *skokkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock.

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