shoogle
/ˈʃʊɡəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I heard the sparks who drove us saying something like, ‘You keep these three Doc; we'll shoogle up the mess boys and find some breakfast.’"
- "Suddenly, a rhythmic shaking and rattling overtook the room, shoogling and shimmying the structure in time to the acid jazz stomp riverboat boogie shuffle beat of the song."
- "He dipped it, scooped up a sheet's worth of pulp from the vessel and shook it even, rocking it back and forth to let out the water. There is a wonderful Scots word, ‘shoogle’, for precisely this rocking motion. After shoogling the frame, he let it drip for a few seconds, then, as if opening the window, he raised the deckle and lifted out the gauze."
- "First and foremost, howsever, gie that sleepy body, Dirdumwhamle, a shoogle out o' his dreams."
- "To him, it might as well have been music, and his subsequent display of dance kicks and bum shoogles, had them all in hysterics."
- "And when he would be sayin' good-bye to them from the brudge, he would chust take off his hat and give it a shoogle, and put it on again; his manners wass complete."