joggle

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɒɡəl/
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/ˈd͡ʒɒɡəl/ · /ˈd͡ʒɑ.ɡəl/(US) · /ˈd͡ʒɔɡ.əl/

Definition of joggle

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
    “Little Elephant sighed because he felt ready to burst and he didn't see how he could eat any pudding, and he'd been waiting all day for that pudding. So he got up and trotted around the table ten times to joggle down his turkey. He must make room for the Christmas pudding!”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
    “Little Elephant sighed because he felt ready to burst and he didn't see how he could eat any pudding, and he'd been waiting all day for that pudding. So he got up and trotted around the table ten times to joggle down his turkey. He must make room for the Christmas pudding!”
  2. (intransitive)To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  3. (transitive)To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
    “The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.”
  4. To jog or run while juggling.

noun

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From jog (verb) + -le (frequentative suffix).

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