jog

CEFRA2

/d͡ʒɒɡ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sharp change in direction.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

Examples

  • I love to jog more than anything else in the world.

  • We jog before breakfast every morning.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A sudden push or nudge.

  2. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

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

More examples

In context

  • I tried desperately to jog my memory.

  • 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

  • jog one's elbow

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, 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 *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.