Meaning

(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
2. An act of shoogling; a shake.

Example Sentences

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.’

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• shoogles
• shoogling
• shoogled

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When Should You Use Shoogle?

Use shoogle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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