shoogle

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊɡəl/

Verb

shoogle (third-person singular simple present shoogles, present participle shoogling, simple past and past participle shoogled)

1. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
   • 2005, David Fiddimore, Tuesday's War, unnumbered page:

     I heard the sparks who drove us saying something like, ‘You keep these three Doc; we'll shoogle up the mess boys and find some breakfast.’

   • 2005, Neil Keir Henderson, An English Summer in Scotland and Other Unlikely Events, page 225:

     Suddenly, a rhythmic shaking and rattling overtook the room, shoogling and shimmying the structure in time to the acid jazz stomp riverboat boogie shuffle beat of the song.

   • 2008, Mandy Haggith, Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper, page 25:

     He dipped it, scooped up a sheet's worth of pulp from the vessel and shook it even, rocking it back and forth to let out the water. There is a wonderful Scots word, ‘shoogle’, for precisely this rocking motion. After shoogling the frame, he let it drip for a few seconds, then, as if opening the window, he raised the deckle and lifted out the gauze.

Noun

shoogle (plural shoogles)

1. An act of shoogling; a shake.
   • 1850, John Galt, The Entail, page 299:

     First and foremost, howsever, gie that sleepy body, Dirdumwhamle, a shoogle out o' his dreams.

   • 2010, Steward Gemmill, The Treasures of Drumory, page 1342:

     To him, it might as well have been music, and his subsequent display of dance kicks and bum shoogles, had them all in hysterics.

   • 2012, Neil Munro, The Vital Spark, page 54:

     And when he would be sayin' good-bye to them from the brudge, he would chust take off his hat and give it a shoogle, and put it on again; his manners wass complete.

Derived terms

• shoogly

Related terms

• shoggle

Anagrams

• goloshe