shog

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The first jog and shog are identical in meaning and derivation, and may be traced, by whosoever chooses, to the Gothic tiuhan_, (Germ, ziehen_,) and are therefore near of kin to our tug_.

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  1. To shake; agitate. And the boot in the myddil of the see was schoggid with waivis. Wyclif, Mat. xiv. 24.
  2. To shake; jog; hence, with off or on, to move off or move on; be gone. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 3. 47. Nay, you must quit my house; shog on. Massinger, Parliament of Love, iv. 5. Laughter, pucker our cheekes, make shoulders shog With chucking lightnesse! Marston, What you Will, v. 1.
  3. A jog; a shock. Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before. Dryden, Epil. to Etheredge's Man of Mode, l. 28. “Lads,” he said, “we have had a shog, we have had a tumble; wherefore, then, deny it?” R. L. Stevenson, Black Arrow, ii. 1.

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  1. from Middle English schoggen, a variant of shocken, shock (perhaps influenced by W. ysgogi, wag, shake): see shock, and cf. jog.
  2. from shog, v.
 

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