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Jog   /dʒɑg/   Listen
verb
Jog  v. t.  (past & past part. jogged; pres. part. jogging)  
1.
To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. "Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well-favored youth?" "Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side."
2.
To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.
3.
To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.


Jog  v. i.  
1.
To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; usually with on, sometimes with over. "Jog on, jog on, the footpath way." "So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot." "The good old ways our sires jogged safely over."
2.
To run at less than maximum speed; to move on foot at a pace between a walk and a run; to run at a moderate pace so as to be able to continue for some time; performed by people, mostly for exercise.


noun
Jog  n.  
1.
A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt. "To give them by turns an invisible jog."
2.
A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane.
3.
A liesurely running pace. See jog (2), v. i.
Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to.





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"Jog" Quotes from Famous Books



... aggravating way of falling into mournful revery and of forgetting his subject. Mr. Bixby was forced to jog him again. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... Ignatius Gallaher, "here we are in old jog-along Dublin where nothing is known of ...
— Dubliners • James Joyce
... take the liberty of reminding the Signor Conte that he is expected at the Casa Doria at seven o'clock,' observed his valet in a subdued and discreet murmur, one of his offices being to jog his master's memory. 'Everything ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio
... results in an overuse or overdevelopment of the cerebral metronome. Both readers and writers get into a certain 'swing' which turns to monotony and sing-song in reading and to excessive uniformity of sentence length and structure in writing—what is called a jog-trot style. This pause as it affects the reading of verse is only slightly dependent upon the logical content of words, for it takes its pace, especially in rimed verse, from the normal line length, ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... his horse to a jog-trot, and the five Hillmen pattered in his wake, huddled so close together that the horse could easily have kicked more than one of them. The night was cold enough to make flesh creep; but it was imagination that herded them until ...
— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy


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