Shog
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 jolt, shake (brisk movement) archaic
"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."
- 1 to jolt or shake ambitransitive, archaic
"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 Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza."
- 2 to depart; to go. archaic
"Shall we shog? The king will be gone from Southampton."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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.
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