jig-jog

comparative more jig-jog · superlative most jig-jog · alternative jigjog

1. Having a jolting motion.

   Four posts were sunk in the ground, and, by means of some cross-beams and a couple of stout ropes and pulleys, worked by two men, the passengers were lifted up and let down in a jig-jog way that gave unbounded satisfaction to the customers.

   1888, Edmund Finn, The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, Chapter 53

alternative jigjog

1. A jolting motion
2. a jogging pace.

   1 more example

   They must not go with a long launching pace, or the poor woman would roll like a boat in a rough sea. A quiet, regular, jig-jog, never lifting the feet high from the ground, was the pace required—just the next degree in swiftness to a walk—a pace into which horses naturally fall, and which, when their spirits are not too high, they seem to prefer to any other.

   1860, Sarah Stickney Ellis, “The Pillion”, in Once a Week

present singular third person jig-jogs · participle present jig-jogging · participle past jig-jogged · past jig-jogged · alternative jigjog

1. To run at a jogging pace