{"id":8468,"date":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","slug":"shoogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8468","title":{"rendered":"Shoogle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One interesting word I&#8217;ve heard people using in Shetland is <a href=\"http:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/shoogle\"><strong>shoogle<\/strong><\/a> [\u0283ogl; \u0283ugl; \u0283\u028cgl; \u0283\u028cugl], which means;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; to sway, move unsteadily, to rock, wobble, swing;<br \/>\n&#8211; to shake, joggle, to cause to totter or rock, to swing backwards and forwards;<br \/>\n&#8211; to jog along, move with little unsteady jerks; to shuffle in walking <\/p>\n<p>It is also written shogle, schogle, shooggle, shougle, shuggle and shochle, and comes from the word shog (jolt, shake), from the Middle English <em>shoggen, shaggen<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/shog\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A related word is shoogly, which means wobbly. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples of usage (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/\">Dictionary of the Scots Language<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It\u2019s a bit rusty but it still works \u2013 you just have to give the key a bit of a shoogle in the lock. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gie the salad dressin a shoogle tae mix it right. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It was gey shoggly and sometimes I fell off. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Will I hae to shoogle hands wi\u2019 a\u2019 that crood?<\/p>\n<p>I just like the sound of this word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One interesting word I&#8217;ve heard people using in Shetland is shoogle [\u0283ogl; \u0283ugl; \u0283\u028cgl; \u0283\u028cugl], which means; &#8211; to sway, move unsteadily, to rock, wobble, swing; &#8211; to shake, joggle, to cause to totter or rock, to swing backwards and forwards; &#8211; to jog along, move with little unsteady jerks; to shuffle in walking It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}