What's the difference between jiggle and joggle?

Jiggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
  • (2) Having your pot belly jiggled at any age isn't nice.
  • (3) An improvement from group 1 to group 2 was noticed in both methods (P less than 0.01), but from group 2 to 3 there was improvement only in the method where jiggling was allowed (P less than 0.01).
  • (4) Hidden from the waist down beneath the stage, he wears a vast tail coat, and jiggles puppet-like pin-striped legs with his arms while a hidden actor operates small hands from behind.
  • (5) His supersize cross jiggling gently on his chest, he said the figures showed the bank's capital had been wiped out, "the very definition of failure".
  • (6) State finances will be jiggled so that money goes to where it is thought good for growth, such as infrastructure spending.
  • (7) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
  • (8) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
  • (9) 3.24am GMT 56 mins At the other lend of the field Velasquez wriggles and twists and prods and jiggles in the box.
  • (10) Oddly, given that the design dated to the order's birth at the height of the first world war, it looked rather Teutonic, as if it might have been happy jiggling up and down on the chest of a Prussian general.
  • (11) An electronic adaptation of an old one, the Jiggle cage, is described.
  • (12) In each dog, a device was installed in the lower left jaw quadrant to expose the third premolar (P3) to jiggling forces which would enhance the mobility of this "test" tooth.
  • (13) Experiments have been performed in beagle dogs in attempts to evaluate the effect of orthodontic- and jiggling-type trauma on the supporting structures of premolars.
  • (14) In the presence of jiggling forces, traumatic occlusion can provoke a progressive mobility, and in certain cases, accelerate the periodontal destruction in presence of periodontitis.
  • (15) Also, the protein molecules, as a whole, jiggle in the lattice with r.m.s.
  • (16) R takes his free arm, the one that is not jiggling the other boy up and down like a farmer on his horse, and he takes my hand and squeezes it.
  • (17) Quantitative measurement of motor activity during such clamp-induced immobility was made by placing the rats in a jiggle cage.
  • (18) Lanzini then ambushed Claudio Yacob in midfield, jiggled forward and nearly bamboozled the goalkeeper from 25 yards, but Boaz Myhill managed to improvise a save with his feet.
  • (19) Each surgeon was asked to aim a needle at an exit point using two methods: 'jiggling' (readjustment of the needle in aiming at the target) allowed and jiggling not allowed.
  • (20) Extrusion, but especially jiggling and a long treatment period were found to be significantly more frequent in the group exhibiting resorption than in the control group.

Joggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
  • (v. t.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
  • (v. i.) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  • (n.) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.

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