shoggle, v. Chiefly dial.
(ˈʃɒg(ə)l)
Also 8 schogle, 9 shoogle, shogle, shuggle.
[Frequentative f. shog v.: see -le. Cf. G. schockeln, schuckeln to shake, jostle, walk unsteadily.]
1. trans. To shake, to cause to move; to shake (something or somebody) off.
| 1577 Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. 159 b, You must in no wise shake them, or shoggle them..: by shaking of the egges, the Chickins haue been hatched lame. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie xxxiv, If, by ony mischance, she had been shooggled aff [the coach] whar would I hae been then? a 1844 W. Miller in Whitelaw Bk. Scott. Song 6/2 Stravagin' wuns begin To shoggle and shake the window⁓brods. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., To Shoggle, to joggle. |
2. intr. To shake; to swing about, to dangle; to shake or settle down.
| c 1730 Ramsay Vision v, A braid-sword schogled at his thee. 1896 Crockett Cleg Kelly xxix, I'll juist lock them in and they'll [soon] hae shuggled doon as quaite as a session. |
3. To walk unsteadily.
| 1884 Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.), The old cat was shuggling about in the hole. 1896 B. Mitford Sign of Spider xxvii. 268 It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then..it shoggled over the ridge. Ibid. 274 The fearful Thing..shoggled away in the direction whence it had come. |