shoggle

See shog, joggle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒɡəl/

shoggle (third-person singular simple present shoggles, present participle shoggling, simple past and past participle shoggled)

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Alternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”)
   • 1897, Bertram Mitford, The Sign of the Spider:

     It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then ere the maniacal echoes of that shout had quavered into silence among the cliffs, it shoggled over the ridge and was lost to view.

   • 1889, Henry Anderson Bryde, Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony:

     The awful silence of this sepulchral place was presently , as we rested for ten minutes , broken by a posse of baboons , who having espied us from their krantzes above, came shoggling down to see what we were.

• “shoggle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• hog legs, hog's leg, hoglegs