jog

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sharp change in direction

   there was a jog in the road

2. 2
   verb

   stimulate to remember

   jog my memory

3. 3
   verb

   run for exercise

   jog along the canal

4. 4
   verb

   continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

   This novel rambles on and jogs

5. 5
   noun

   A sudden push or nudge.

   Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.

6. 6
   noun

   A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

   This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.

7. 7
   verb

   To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

   jog one's elbow

8. 8
   verb

   To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

Etymology

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.