2. Verb. (intransitive) To move with a slow, regular, jolting gait. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jogtrot
1. a slow jogging trot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jogtrot
Literary usage of Jogtrot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plays for Home Performance by John Maddison Morton (1889)
"And who's jogtrot? MRS. T. Jessie's guardian; a retired physician—a very eminent
man in the scientific world. JACK. Oh ! ah ! (Aside. ..."
2. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"... run slowly, jogtrot, scamper (cf. Wood, Hesperia Ergänz. I, 30, 66). 54.25.
... walk slowly, linger, be slow in one's gait or work, lunte- trav jogtrot, ..."
3. The Universal Magazine (1793)
"This is all the needful from, worthy, fir, your humble fervant to command till
death, JONATHAN jogtrot. h THE LETTER. Old Jewry, London, April i. ..."
4. The Semantic Development of Words for "walk, Run" in the Germanic Languges by Roscoe Myrl Ihrig (1916)
"... vare seen i sin gang eller i sit arbeide, i ki^rsel, walk slowly, linger, be
slow in one's gait or work, lunte- trar jogtrot, ..."
5. Black Beauty: His Groom and Companions ; the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Horse by Anna Sewell (1894)
"... my horse will get you there all right;" and as he shut them in, with a wink
toward Jerry, said, " It's against his conscience to go beyond a jogtrot. ..."
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