Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK Und.) to move, to leave.

1594		Lyly Mother Bombie III ii: Come let vs be jogging.
1610		Beaumont & Fletcher Scornful Lady III ii: y.love: Will you jog on, sir? more: Yes, I will go.
c.1617		Fletcher Chances I vi: Come good wonder, Let you and I be jogging.
c.1620		J. Hall Discovery of New World 85: Well sir (quoth I) but lle be iogging hence.
1636		W. Davenant Wits IV ii: Jog off!
1641		Lambeth faire n.p.: See where the Hangman comes, away, be jogging.
1657		F. de Quevedo The life and adventures of Buscon 49: It was now almost time to be jogging. The Hectors made the reckoning, which came to fifteen shillings.
1668		J. Wilkins An essay towards a real character 43: going, Depart, recede, return, regress, ingress, egress, be packing, be jogging, retire.
1674		T. Duffet Empress of Morocco Act I: If this be more than meerly Cogging, Let’s talk no more but straight be jogging.
1678		Dryden Kind Keeper V i: Be jogging, good Mr. Woodall, out of this Family.
1690		T. Shadwell The amorous bigotte 18: There’nms your Cordial, jog off.
1713		W. King York Spy 29: My Friend and I thinking it high Time to be jogging, made the Bachanalians a scrape.
1725		Bailey (trans.) Erasmus’ Colloquies 471: It is time for you to think of packing up your Awls, and be jogging.
1739		R. Bull Grobianus 174: Bid ’em be jogging, while their Boots are green.
1787		R. Tyler Contrast III i: I jogged off.
1797		‘T.B. Junr.’ Pettyfogger Dramatized II vi: Make yourself scarce: be jogging, or I’ll break every bone in your skin.
1837		‘The Devil & Johnny Dixon’ Bentley’s Misc. Mar. 254: Draw on yer boots, and let us be jogging.
1844		‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life in N.Y. II 264: Mr. Slick, I spose we may as well be a joggin.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 124/1: I thought it was time we should be jogging, as the hotel would close shortly.
1885		M. Davitt Leaves from a Prison Diary I 152: I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang.
1896		‘Thieves’ Sl.’ Gent.’s Mag. CCLXXXI Oct. 348: [as cit. 1885].
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 166: ‘[Y]ou’re going to have to jog on. And do it quick’.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 219: ‘[W] jog off down there’ .

2. to have sexual intercourse; thus n. jog, an act of sexual intercourse.

1608		R. Middleton Epigrams 21: Glabreus of late lay with a common whore, / But now he sweares hee’le iogge with her no more.
1613		Rowlands ‘The Country Cunning-Man’ Knaves of Spades & Diamonds 95: When Ball his Dog at twelue a clocke did howle, He jogd his wife, and Ill lucke, Madge, did say, And Fox by morning stole a Goose away.
1647		Remonstrance of the Shee-Citizens 4: The heavenly dew that they were wont daily to water us with, and to our infinite joy, jog us [...] stuffing our bellies with cakes, and creame .
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 19 4–11 Oct. 170: He joggd his Wife.
1700		‘Song’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 275: John and Dolley jog, jog jogging.
1709		‘Would You Have a Young Virgin’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 209: Try her, and ply her when Cully’s gone / Dog her, and jog her, / And meet her, and treat her, / And kiss with two Guinea’s, and all’s your own.
c.1720		‘The Masquerade Ball’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 235: O! a Masquerade’s a fine Place, / For Carriers that love Jogging.
1736		Cupid 20: I’se nae afraid When he gangs to bed me, A’ night long I’se ne’er complain, Tho’ he jog’d me sprightly .
1785		‘Three Monks’ in Nightly Sports of Venus 24: With what indifference they begin, / And jog on in lawful deed [...] Heavens with what ardour they proceed!
1792		C. Dibdin ‘Recital of the Tombs’ Buck’s Delight 92: These once were bonny dames, and tho’ there were no coaches then, / Yet could they jog their tails themselves, or get them – jogg’d by the men!
1833		‘The Fancy’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 8: Try her, and ply her, when cully’s gone; / Dog her, and jog her.
1952		W.R. Burnett Vanity Row 16: [a female speaker] ‘Pull down your dress, will you, for God’s sake?’ cried Roy. ‘You want to get us killed?’ ‘I jogged him when I came over, I think,’ said Kit. ‘You sure did. Some jog, eh, Boley?’ .

3. of a homosexual man, to have anal intercourse.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 88: anal intercourse [...] jog.

4. see jook v.