jog

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Etymology

Late Middle English, of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down".

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 *skokkan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.

Alternatively from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”) (see jag).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

jog (plural jogs)

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
2. A sudden push or nudge.
   • 2016, Kes Gray, Daisy and the Trouble With Jack:

     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.

3. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

   Synonym: return piece

   • 1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre, page 143:

     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.

4. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

Translations

Verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

1. (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

   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

   • 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , volume 3, London: Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 271:

     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.

2. (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

   • 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33,

     Here lieth one who did most truly prove,

     That he could never die while he could move,

     So hung his destiny, never to rot,

     While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton‎, page 95:

     When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]

   • 1835, Robert Browning, Paracelsus‎, Part 4:

     That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,
     Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong
     And beaconed properly, would commend again
     The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,
     Though not their squeamish sons; […]

4. (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

   (I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.)

5. (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

6. (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

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Dutch

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Verb

jog

1. inflection of joggen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• goj

Hungarian

Etymology

From jó (“good”).

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• Hyphenation: jog
• Rhymes: -oɡ

Noun

jog (countable and uncountable, plural jogok)

1. right (as a legal, just or moral entitlement)
2. law (the body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community; jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• törvény (law as a binding regulation or custom established in a community, or as a rule or principle)

References

• Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN

Further reading

• jog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lithuanian

Conjunction

jog

1. that

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) jo'ug

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joki.

Noun

jog

1. (Salaca) river

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jaga, jaget, jagde

Verb

jog

1. simple past of jage