shoggle

Alternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”).

Verb

  1. Alternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”).
    • It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then ere the maniacal echoes of that shout had quavered into silence among the cliffs, it shoggled over the ridge and was lost to view. - 1897, Bertram Mitford, The Sign of the...
    • The awful silence of this sepulchral place was presently , as we rested for ten minutes , broken by a posse of baboons , who having espied us from their krantzes above, came shoggling down to see what we were. - 1889,...

Origin

See shog, joggle.

Forms

shoggles shoggling shoggled

Derived

shoggly