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Jog vs Lurch - What's the difference?

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Jog is a related term of lurch.


As nouns the difference between jog and lurch

is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot while lurch is amphibian.

As a verb jog

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

jog

English

(wikipedia jog)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

    • Verb

    (jogg)
  • To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
    • jog one's elbow
  • * John Donne
    • Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
  • To shake, stir or rouse.
    • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
  • (exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
  • * Milton
    • So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
  • * Robert Browning
    • The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
  • To cause to move at an energetic trot.
    • to jog a horse
  • To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

    • Related terms

    * jogging ----

    lurch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sudden or unsteady movement.
    • the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
  • * 1898 , , (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.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
  • (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
  • * South
    • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
  • (obsolete) To steal; to rob.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.

    See also

    * leave someone in the lurch *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) lurcare.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

  • An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  • A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
  • * Walpole
    • Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch .

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