jig-jog

adj, noun, verb — 4 senses

jig-jog

adj

1

Having a jolting motion.

Four posts were sunk in the ground, and, by means of some cross-beams and a couple of stout ropes and pulleys, worked by two men, the passengers were lifted up and let down in a jig-jog way that gave unbounded satisfaction to the customers.1888, Edmund Finn, The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, Chapter 53:

jig-jog

noun

1

A jolting motion

2

a jogging pace.

They must not go with a long launching pace, or the poor woman would roll like a boat in a rough sea. A quiet, regular, jig-jog, never lifting the feet high from the ground, was the pace required—just the next degree in swiftness to a walk—a pace into which horses naturally fall, and which, when their spirits are not too high, they seem to prefer to any other.1860, Sarah Stickney Ellis, “The Pillion”, in Once a Week:

jig-jog

verb

1

To run at a jogging pace

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