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shog

/ʃɒɡ/

shog noun: jolt, shake (brisk movement).

Noun

shog (plural shogs)

  1. (archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement)
    • The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open.1808, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18)
    • Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake.1881, Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play

Verb

shog (third-person singular simple present shogs, present participle shogging, simple past and past participle shogged)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) to jolt or shake
    • Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhake and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful...1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I...
  2. (archaic, frequently followed by off) to depart; to go.
    • Shall we shog? The king will be gone from Southampton.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass...1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147

shog meaning in Tamil

shog in Tamil

அதிர்ச்சி

Examples of shog in a sentence

  • My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term.1899, George A. Aitken, The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899:
  • On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • Porius's mind was divided between his excited interest in the emperor's famous counsellor and his fear lest in the growing darkness his foster-brother might shog off altogether.2007, John Cowper Powys, Porius:

Forms of shog

Noun
pluralshogs
Verb
third-person singular presentshogs
present participleshogging
past participleshogged
pastshogged

Origin of shog

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.

Words that rhyme with shog

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Questions about shog

What does shog mean?
Shog means jolt, shake (brisk movement).
What is shog in Tamil?
Shog in Tamil is அதிர்ச்சி. See Shog meaning in Tamil.
How do you use shog in a sentence?
My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term.
What part of speech is shog?
Shog can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce shog?
Shog is pronounced /ʃɒɡ/.
What is the plural of shog?
The plural of shog is shogs.

Words near shog in the dictionary

  1. Shofners
  2. shofroth
  3. shoftim
  4. shoful
  5. shofuls
  6. shog
  7. shogaol
  8. shogaols
  9. shogged
  10. shogging
  11. shoggings

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