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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To shake; agitate.
  2. To shake; jog; hence, with off or on, to move off or move on; be gone.
  3. n. A jog; a shock.
  4. n. An obsolete variant of shock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic jolt, shake (brisk movement)
  2. v. archaic to jolt or shake

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. R. or Scot. A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.
  2. v. R. or Scot. To shake; to shock.
  3. v. R. or Scot. To jog; to move on.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English schoggen ("to shake up and down, jog"), from Middle Dutch schocken ("to jolt, bounce") or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken ("to shog"), from Old Saxon *skokkan ("to move"), from Proto-Germanic *skukkanan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock. (Wiktionary)

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  • madmouth 'shog along, then--buncha hooligans' Oct 28, 2009

  • knitandpurl "Shog is Elizabethan English: it means 'go away, move along'. Historically, it relates to such 'movement' words as shock and shake."
    By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal, p 182 Dec 17, 2008

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