▪ I. shog, n. Now only dial. and arch.
(ʃɒg)
Forms: 6 schogg, 7–8 shogg, 7– shog.
[f. shog v.]
† 1. A shaking condition. Obs. rare.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 141 Gif thir tua landis he ma vanquis, Scotland, he thinkis, will be in a schogg. 1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve iv. iii, I feel a gorgeing pain..A shog of Blood and Spirits. |
2. A shake, jerk.
| 1611 Cotgr., Bransle,..a shake, shog, or shocke. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. xii. 68 Thrust in the Ladle, being full, give it a shog, then strike off the heaped Powder. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 39 ¶2 My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shogg from a comet. 1724 Hearne Collect (O.H.S.) VIII. 280 He warned her to hold by the ropes..that so she might not fall, if there happened any greater shog than ordinary. |
| transf. 1728 Ramsay Fox & Rat 20 Thus thou, great King, hast by thy conqu'ring Paw, Gi'en Earth a Shog, and made thy Will a Law. 1785 Burns Address to Deil xvi, Ye cam to Paradise incog,..An' gied the infant world a shog. 1888 Stevenson Black Arrow Prol. 11 This will be a rare shog to poor Sir Oliver; he will turn paper-colour. |
3. A shogging gait. Cf. shog v. 3.
| 1885 Dodge Patroclus & Penelope 25 In early days, horses were mainly ridden on a canter or a gallop. If perchance a trot, it was a mere shog. |
▪ II. shog, v. Now chiefly dial.
(ʃɒg)
Forms: 4–7 shogge, (5 shogke), 5–6 schog(ge, 6 shugge, (shougge), 7–8 shogg, 8 shogue, (shug), 5– shog.
[ME. shogge, prob. related to OHG. scoc (pl. scocga) oscillation, swinging, a swing, MHG. schock, schocke swing, see-saw, MDu., Du. schok shake, jolt, MLG., MDu., MHG. schocker to swing, oscillate, shake. The word was doubltess felt as phonetically symbolic of the character of the movement denoted; cf. jog v. See also shock v.1]
1. a. trans. To shake or roll (something heavy) from side to side; to rock (a cradle); to shake, agitate (a liquid or the vessel containing it); to jolt or jar (some one or something). Also, to shake off a load. rare.
| 1388 Wyclif Matt. xiv. 24 The boot..was schoggid with wawis [Vulg. jactabatur fluctibus]. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 3015 Þey houe, þey drawe, þey shogkeden hit [sc. the shrine] also. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 322 Of wynys soure is taught to make swete Wit barly floure...And oon doth dregge of swete wyn therto; Of gliricide [read gliciride] a part he hath infuse Al drie, & longe yshogged it wol vse [L. utuntur, cum diu vasorum commotione miscuerint]. c 1550 Droichis Part of Play 38 in Dunbar's Poems 315 He, quhen he dansit, the warld wald schog. 1625 Purchas Pilgrims II. 1659 Now their [children's] Couch hangs in the Aire, within little Beds of coard, or little Chaires, where they shogge and rocke them. 1665 Hooke Microgr. 31 If care be taken that the tube in erecting be not shogged. 1787 W. H. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 388 To Shug, to shake; as hay, &c. 1949 D. L. Sayers tr. Dante's Divine Comedy I. xvii. 178 Having shogged our burden off..away he bounded. |
† b. To shake (a person) in order to cause pain or annoyance, or to rouse from sleep; to jog (a person) in order to attract attention. Also rarely to shog upon in the same sense. Obs.
| c 1440 York Myst. xl. 100 They schogged hym and schotte hym his lymes all in sondir. c 1495 Epitaffe, etc. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 389, I shogged him, I shaked him. 1530 Palsgr. 705/1 Shougge nat so upon him to wake hym out of his slepe. Ibid. 706/1 Shugge. 1534 More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1189/2 Rudely and boystuously shogge hym & wake him. c 1613 Middleton No Wit like Woman's ii. ii. 107 Philip. May I crave one word, madam? [stage-direction.] Shogs his Mother. 1651 H. More Enthus. Tri. (1656) M 2, You onely mutter against the present disturbance, as one shogged while he dreams upon his pillow. |
† c. fig. To ‘shake’ mentally; to upset, discompose; to irritate, annoy. Obs.
| 1639 Cade Serm. 50 The deadly arrow sticks in his flesh, and shogs and galls him. 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instruct. (1897) 47 His Brains have become so shogged, he cannot think in a fortnight. 1701 Steele Chr. Hero (1711) 16 Cæsar..a little shogg'd with reiterated ill Omens. |
2. † a. refl. (obs.) and b. intr. To jerk or jolt; to shake to and fro, to rock; † to be shaky or insecurely fixed, to get shaken out.
| a. a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 5018 Þan schogs hire þe sontree & schoke hire schire leues. |
| b. c 1450 Mirk's Festial 174 As he hyet on his way..þe box schoget out of his bosome. 15.. in Boys Sandwich (1792) 365 For amendyng of a chalys foote y{supt} schoggyd ij d. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xvi. x. 63 Neither was he seene so much as to give a nod with his head, when the wheele shogged. 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Insects 900 Let there be two handfuls distance between every Hive, that one shogging or shaking, the next may stand unmoved. 1841 R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scot. (1870) 337 Big it [the castle] in a bog Where 'twill neither shake nor shog. |
† c. intr. Of troops: To waver, become unsteady.
| 1642–4 Vicars God in Mount 147 All the enemies Horse began to shogge a little. |
3. a. To walk, ride or move with a succession of bumps or jerks; to jog along. Now usually, to advance at a steady easy pace, to travel steadily on.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 11089 Restorit full stithly opon strong wise, Shot into sheltrons shoggond full þicke. 15.. Scot. Field 94 in Chetham Soc. Misc. II, Shott into a sure shipp, and shoggeth over the water, Into Scotland. 1530 Palsgr. 704/1 The carte shogged so faste that I went ever I shulde have fallen downe. 1719 Ramsay Ep. Hamilton Answ. iii. 20 Be blythe, and let the Warld e'en shog, as it thinks fit. 1857 Kingsley Two Y. Ago xxviii, They shog on side by side. 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 12 Shogging steadily on..I at length reached the creek. |
b. To go away, begone. Usu. with off.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 47 Will you shogge off? Ibid. ii. iii. 48 Shall wee shogg? a 1625 Fletcher Coxcomb ii. i, Come, prethee let's shogg off, and browze an hour or two. 1884 C. M. Yonge Armourer's Prentices I. x. 192 Bolt..bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folks' shoes. 1929 J. C. Powys Wolf Solent vii. 154 Lob began to swagger slowly away. ‘I knows why you wants me to shog off,’ he called back. Ibid. ix. 208 Wolf shogged off by himself. 1962 L. R. Banks End to Running i. v. 71 I'll just say to hell with her, to hell with the money and the house and everything else—I'll just shog off. |
† 4. Of troops: To move gradually to one side. Also trans. of a commander, to cause (troops) to move gradually to one side. Obs.
| 1650 Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Carlyle (1845) II. 45 The Enemy drew down to the right wing..; shogging also their foot and train much to the right. 1654–66 Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 691, I gave strict order to all my Army to shog still toward the right hand. |
Hence ˈshogged ppl. a.
| 1594 R. Carew Tasso (1881) 73 Nor shogged earth so euer bideth throwes, When bigge in wombe she doth the vapours close. |