jog

Verb

1. 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,^[1]

     Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes, Do you see

     Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, 'tis hee

     That dances so divinely

   • 1725, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer’s Odyssey, London: Lintot, Volume 3, Book 14, p. 271,^[2]

     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. To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     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,^[4]

     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, p. 95,^[5]

     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,^[6]

     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) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
5. To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

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

Translations

to push or jerk slightly

• Finnish: tönäistä (fi)
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• Greek: σκουντώ (el) (skountó)

to shake, stir or rouse

• Finnish: ravistella (fi) (shake); hämmentää (fi) (stir)
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to move in an energetic trot

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跑步 (zh) (pǎobù), 慢跑 (zh) (mànpǎo)

• Dutch: joggen (nl)
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• Finnish: hölkätä (fi), jolkuttaa
• French: faire du jogging
• German: joggen gehen
• Greek: κάνω τζόκινγκ (káno tzókingk)
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• Japanese: ジョギングする (jogingu suru)
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• Portuguese: fazer jogging
• Russian: бе́гать (bégatʹ) трусцой (truscoj) (bégatʹ truscój), занима́ться (zanimátʹsja) джоггингом (džoggingom) (zanimátʹsja džóggingom)
• Spanish: hacer jogging
• Swedish: jogga (sv)
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• Welsh: loncian (cy)

to cause to move at an energetic trot

• Finnish: juoksuttaa (fi)
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to straighten stacks of paper

• Finnish: suoristaa pinkka
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