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-Germanic *skukkōną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɒɡ/

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shog (plural shogs)

1. (archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement)
   • 1808, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18)‎:

     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.

   • 1881, Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play‎:

     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.

   • 1899, George A. Aitken, The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899‎:

     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.

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

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) to jolt or shake
   • 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, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, OCLC 926209975, page 203:

     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 ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.

2. (archaic, frequently followed by off) to depart; to go.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Shall we shog? The king will be gone from Southampton.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147:

     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 silently to their work.

   • 2007, John Cowper Powys, Porius:

     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.

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