Shoogly vs Shoogle - What's the difference?
shoogly | shoogle | Derived terms |
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
* 2005 , David Fiddimore, Tuesday's War ,
* 2005 , Neil Keir Henderson, An English Summer in Scotland and Other Unlikely Events ,
* 2008 , Mandy Haggith, Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper ,
An act of shoogling ; a shake.
* 1850 , John Galt, The Entail ,
* 2010 , Steward Gemmill, The Treasures of Drumory ,
* 2012 , Neil Munro, The Vital Spark ,
Shoogly is a derived term of shoogle.
As an adjective shoogly
is (scotland) shaky, giddy, unsteady, rickety.As a verb shoogle is
(transitive|scotland|northern england) to shake or rock rapidly.As a noun shoogle is
an act of shoogling ; a shake.shoogle
English
Verb
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- 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.’
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- 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.
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- 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
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- First and foremost, howsever, gie that sleepy body, Dirdumwhamle, a shoogle out o' his dreams.
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- To him, it might as well have been music, and his subsequent display of dance kicks and bum shoogles , had them all in hysterics.
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- 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.
