jog

Meaning

Noun

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
2. A sudden push or nudge.
3. A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
4. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

Verb

1. To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
2. To shake, stir or rouse.
3. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
4. To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
5. To cause to move at an energetic trot.
6. To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɒɡ/

Etymology

Late Middle English, of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down".
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 *skokkan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.
Alternatively from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”) (see jag).