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Definition of Jog trot
1. Noun. An easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jog Trot
Literary usage of Jog trot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... A JOG-TROT PAIR WHO were the twain that trod this track So many times together
Hither and back, In spells of certain and uncertain weather ? ..."
2. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer".: A Biographical Sketch by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"... have spurred him out of a jog-trot, although I was writing in college, the
seat of science and erudition, where 1 expected my pen would instinctively ..."
3. Bits of Talk about Home Matters by Helen Hunt Jackson (1873)
"jog trot. rI ^HERE is etymological uncertainty about the •*• phrase. But there
is no doubt about its meaning ; no doubt that it represents a good, ..."
4. God's Calendar by William Alfred Quayle (1907)
"MARCH is the feast of trumpets of the year. It is the wind month. Jehu's driving
was a jog trot compared with the speed of the March winds. ..."
5. English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell (1892)
"CHAPTER V. JOSEPH PRUDHOMME, THE JOG-TROT MID DLE-CLASS FRENCHMAN. JOSEPH PRUDHOMME,
whom the Anglo-Saxon people are fond of representing as a fighting cock ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Shoddy, sb. waste from worsted spinning mills. Shog, vn and a., var. pron.
of 'jog,' to shake slightly; to rock; also, to trot slowly; go a jog-trot; also, ..."
7. Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent: The Authoritative 1920 Classic by C. Kamba Simango, Madikane Q̂andeya Čele (1920)
"... -jog trot. Then he began to dance, for he thought that by dancing he would
kick up the ground. That was his way of digging. ..."
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