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Jolt vs Shog - What's the difference?

jolt | shog |

As verbs the difference between jolt and shog

is that jolt is to push or shake abruptly and roughly while shog is to jolt or shake.

As nouns the difference between jolt and shog

is that jolt is an act of jolting while shog is jolt, shake brisk movement.

jolt

English

(wikipedia jolt)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
    • The bus jolted its passengers.
  • To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
  • To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
  • To shock emotionally.
    • Her untimely death jolted us all.
  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
    • The bus jolted along the stony path.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jolting.
  • A surprise or shock.
  • (slang) A long prison sentence.
  • (slang) A narcotic injection.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (prison sentence) bit

    shog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1808, author=John Dryden, title=The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Dutton Cook, title=A Book of the Play, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog , casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=George A. Aitken, title=The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term. }}

    Verb

    (shogg)
  • (archaic) to jolt or shake

    • Anagrams

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