different between joggle vs lurch

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

joggle (third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled)

1. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
2. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
3. To jog or run while juggling.
4. (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
   • 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture

     The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

Translations

Noun

joggle (plural joggles)

1. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
2. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: lûrch, IPA^(key): /l?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?

Etymology 1

Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lacher (“to let go”).

Noun

lurch (plural lurches)

1. A sudden or unsteady movement.

   the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

Translations

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Translations

See also

• leave someone in the lurch
• Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

From Latin lurc?re.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

     Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

Etymology 3

From French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.

Noun

lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)

1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
   • August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway

     Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.

   • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
4. (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• churl