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Definition of "joggle" []

  • To shake or jar slightly. (verb-transitive)
  • To move with a shaking or lightly jolting motion. (verb-intransitive)
  • A shaking or lightly jolting motion. (noun)
  • A joint between two pieces of building material formed by a notch and a fitted projection. (noun)
  • The notch or the projecting piece used in such a joint. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "joggle" in a sentence
  • "STUB OR STUMP TENON (Fig. 128; also occasionally called a joggle tenon)."
  • "When you have something on your mind you always take up a spoon of coffee, and look at it, and kind of joggle it back and forth in the spoon, and then dribble it back into the cup again, without once tasting it."
  • "­uncomfortable scene grows uglier as a series of young women take to a bed and strip off their bras to "joggle" their breasts before a throng of men."