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Word entry · 3 letters

jog

Best crossword clue

"Slow run"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒɒɡ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted gjoStarts with JEnds with G2 cluesCommon crossword word
1J2O3G

Definitions

  1. a slight push or shake

Word origin

Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”).

Used in a sentence

  • Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.
  • This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.
  • jog one's elbow

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Slow run3 letters
02Nudge3 letters

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