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Shake vs Shoogle - What's the difference?

shake | shoogle |

As verbs the difference between shake and shoogle

is that shake is to cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly while shoogle is to shake or rock rapidly.

As nouns the difference between shake and shoogle

is that shake is the act of shaking something while shoogle is an act of shoogling; a shake.

shake

English

(wikipedia shake)

Verb

  • (ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
  • * (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
  • I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
  • To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
  • To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • To move from side to side.
  • *, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}
  • To shake hands.
  • To dance.
  • To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • Derived terms

    * more than one can shake a stick at * shake a leg * shake and bake, shake 'n bake * shake hands * shake off * shake one's ass * shake one's head * shake on it * shake the pagoda tree * shake up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of shaking something.
  • The cat gave the mouse a shake .
  • A milkshake.
  • A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • (building material) A thin shingle.
  • A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • A fissure in rock or earth.
  • (informal) Instant, second. (Especially (in two shakes).)
  • *
  • (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • (Totten)
  • (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
  • A shook of staves and headings.
  • (Knight)
  • (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * in two shakes, in two shakes of a cow's tail, etc. * milk-shake * no great shakes * shakemap, shake map * shake table * shakeup, shake-up

    shoogle

    English

    Verb

    (shoogl)
  • (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
  • * 2005 , David Fiddimore, Tuesday's War , unnumbered page,
  • I heard the sparks who drove us saying something like, ‘You keep these three Doc; we'll shoogle up the mess boys and find some breakfast.’
  • * 2005 , Neil Keir Henderson, An English Summer in Scotland and Other Unlikely Events , page 225,
  • Suddenly, a rhythmic shaking and rattling overtook the room, shoogling and shimmying the structure in time to the acid jazz stomp riverboat boogie shuffle beat of the song.
  • * 2008 , Mandy Haggith, Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper , page 25,
  • He dipped it, scooped up a sheet's worth of pulp from the vessel and shook it even, rocking it back and forth to let out the water. There is a wonderful Scots word, ‘shoogle’, for precisely this rocking motion. After shoogling the frame, he let it drip for a few seconds, then, as if opening the window, he raised the deckle and lifted out the gauze.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of shoogling ; a shake.
  • * 1850 , John Galt, The Entail , page 299,
  • First and foremost, howsever, gie that sleepy body, Dirdumwhamle, a shoogle out o' his dreams.
  • * 2010 , Steward Gemmill, The Treasures of Drumory , page 1342,
  • To him, it might as well have been music, and his subsequent display of dance kicks and bum shoogles , had them all in hysterics.
  • * 2012 , Neil Munro, The Vital Spark , page 54,
  • And when he would be sayin' good-bye to them from the brudge, he would chust take off his hat and give it a shoogle , and put it on again; his manners wass complete.

    Derived terms

    * shoogly