joggle

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  1. transitive verb To shake or jar slightly.
  2. intransitive verb To move with a shaking or lightly jolting motion.
  3. noun A shaking or lightly jolting motion.

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  • He used to show me the books he was keepin', and the writin' was as reg'lar as if it'd been done on a job press You're a wonder, you are, Sweetie," says I; "but some day your hand is going to joggle, and there'll be a blot on them pages, and then you'll die of heart disease Miss Allen, the typewriter fairy, was a good deal of a frost. —  Torchy
  • Jiggle-joggle faster, with ye, ye rascals! —  Lords of the North
  • The bearers tramp steadily onward, the chairs sinking and rising in easy vertical motion, much more grateful than the horizontal "joggle" of the Pyrenean saddle-horse. —  A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
  • When you have something on your mind you always take up a spoon of coffee, and look at it, and kind of joggle it back and forth in the spoon, and then dribble it back into the cup again, without once tasting it. —  Cheerful—By Request
  • Don't you joggle, now!" —  Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps frequentative of jog1.
  2. Perhaps from jog2.

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  1. Freq. of jog, q. v. The second sense depends rather upon joggle, n., as a diminutive of jog, n., 3.
  2. Dim. of jog, n. Cf. joggle, v.
 

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