shogglev.
/ˈʃɒɡ(ə)l/ Chiefly dialect.
1. transitive. To shake, to cause to move; to shake (something or somebody) off.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (transitive)] > shake > shake, jerk, or rock
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 159v You must in no wise shake them, or shoggle them..: by shaking of the egges, the Chickins haue been hatched lame.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. i. 6 If, by ony mischance, she had been shooggled aff [the coach] whar would I hae been then?
a1844 W. Miller in Whitelaw Bk. Scott. Song 6/2 Stravagin' wuns begin To shoggle and shake the window~brods.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 153 To Shoggle, to joggle.
2. intransitive. To shake; to swing about, to dangle; to shake or settle down.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake > shake, jerk, or rock
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1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. v A braid-sword schogled at his thee.
1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly xxix I'll juist lock them in and they'll [soon] hae shuggled doon as quaite as a session.
3. To walk unsteadily.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily
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1884 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 16 116 The old cat was shuggling about in the hole.
1896 B. Mitford Sign of Spider xxvii. 268 It stood for a moment in rigid immobility, then..it shoggled over the ridge.
1896 B. Mitford Sign of Spider xxvii. 274 The fearful Thing..shoggled away in the direction whence it had come.
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