jog
/d͡ʒɑɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
verb
To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me."
- "This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs."
- "jog one's elbow"
- "c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely"
- "When now was wasted more than half the night, And the stars faded at approaching light; Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said."
- "I tried desperately to jog my memory."
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: joggen, shoggen, schocken, schoggen, *skukkōn
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒɑɡ/
- British English: /d͡ʒɒɡ/