different between jog vs skedaddle

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

jog (plural jogs)

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
2. A sudden push or nudge.
3. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

   Synonym: return piece

   • 1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre (page 143)

     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.

Translations

Verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

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

   jog one's elbow

   • c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I,^[1]

     Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see

     Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee

     That dances so divinely

   • 1725, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer’s Odyssey, London: Lintot, Volume 3, Book 14, p. 271,^[2]

     When now was wasted more than half the night,

     And the stars faded at approaching light;

     Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid

     Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.

2. To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

   • 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33,^[4]

     Here lieth one who did most truly prove,

     That he could never die while he could move,

     So hung his destiny, never to rot,

     While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, p. 95,^[5]

     When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]

   • 1835, Robert Browning, “Paracelsus” Part 4,^[6]

     That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,

     Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong

     And beaconed properly, would commend again

     The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,

     Though not their squeamish sons; […]

4. (exercise) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
5. To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

6. To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Translations

Related terms

• jogging

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

jog

1. first-person singular present indicative of joggen
2. imperative of joggen

Anagrams

• goj

Hungarian

Etymology

From jó (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jo?]
• Hyphenation: jog
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

jog (countable and uncountable, plural jogok)

1. right (as a legal, just or moral entitlement)
2. law (the body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community; jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• törvény (“law in a more concrete sense”)

References

• Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmez? kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. ?ISBN

Lithuanian

Conjunction

jog

1. that

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) jo'ug

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joki.

Noun

jog

1. (Salaca) river

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jaga, jaget, jagde

Verb

jog

1. simple past of jage

English

Etymology

19th century US - dramatically appearing and gaining prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”).

Possibly related to the Ancient Greek ???????? (skédasis, “scattering”), ????????? (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /sk??dæd?l/
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Verb

skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)

1. (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:

     Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.
2. (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.

Synonyms

• (move or run away quickly): flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush or Thesaurus:flee

Translations

Noun

skedaddle (plural skedaddles)

1. (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Fanciful 19th century American coinages

References

• 1897, Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris, editors, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to scud. To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)"
• Michael Quinion (7 February 2004) , “Skedaddle”, in World Wide Words