shoggle

present singular third person shoggles · participle present shoggling · participle past shoggled · past shoggled

1. Northern EnglandScotlandalternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”).

   It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then ere the maniacal echoes of that shout had quavered into silence among the cliffs, it shoggled over the ridge and was lost to view.

   1897, Bertram Mitford, The Sign of the Spider

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   The awful silence of this sepulchral place was presently , as we rested for ten minutes , broken by a posse of baboons , who having espied us from their krantzes above, came shoggling down to see what we were.

   1889, Henry Anderson Bryde, Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony

1. archaicArchaic form of Jisr al-Shughur.