jog
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From earlier shog (“to jolt, shake”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”), from Old Saxon *skokkan (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkanan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
[edit] Noun
jog (plural jogs)
- A form of exercise, slower than a run
[edit] Translations
[edit] Verb
jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)
- To move or shake with a push or jerk; to jolt.
- To push slightly.
- jog one's elbow
- To shake, stir or rouse.
- I tried desperately to jog my memory.
- To have a jog (UK); to take a jog (US).
- To straighten stacks of paper by lighting tapping against a flat surface.
[edit] Translations
have a jog
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[edit] Related terms
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Verb
jog
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[edit] Hungarian
[edit] Etymology
From jó (“good”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈjoɡ/
[edit] Noun
jog (plural jogok)
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declension of jog
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[edit] Derived terms
- Compound words
[edit] References
- Pusztai Ferenc, Magyar értelmező kéziszótár. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2003, ISBN 963 05 7874 3
[edit] Lithuanian
[edit] Conjunction
jog
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