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Shug vs Shog - What's the difference?

shug | shog |

As verbs the difference between shug and shog

is that shug is (uk|dialect|obsolete) to writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch while shog is (archaic) to jolt or shake.

As a noun shog is

(archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement).

shug

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A Scottish nickname usually applied to people with the first name Hew or Hugh or other spellings of this name.

    • Anagrams

    * * English diminutives of male given names

    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

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