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jog-trot, n., a., adv.
[f. jog v. or n.1 + trot: cf. quot. 1631 in jog v. 4 b.
The Sc. job-trot, jock-trot, are earlier, and possibly distinct in origin.]
A. n. (ˈjog-ˈtrot).
1. lit. A jogging trot; a slow regular jerky pace (usually of a horse, or on horseback).
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T. s.v., To keep on a jogg-trot; to get on with a slow but regular pace. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 102 They ride..some in a jog-trot. a1863Thackeray D. Duval ii, Madame..rode entirely away from me, saying that she could not afford to go at my clerical jog-trot. 1866in Engel Nat. Mus. viii. 291 Off they [Palanquin-men] set in a nasty jog-trot, which rattled every bone in my body.
2. fig. A slow, dull, monotonous, or easy-going progression in any action; a uniform unhurried pace or mode of doing anything, kept up continuously or pertinaciously.
[1709M. Bruce Serm. Soul-confirm. 15 You that keeps only your old Job-troot, and does not mend your pace, you will not wone at Soul-confirmation.] 1756World No. 193 ⁋3 They contented themselves indeed with going on a jog trot in the common road of application and patience. 1843Lever J. Hinton xxxii, There was nothing to break the monotonous jog-trot of daily life. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 8 Nor does he [Grimald] ever fall into the worst kind of jog-trot.
B. adj. (ˈjog-trot).
1. lit. Of the nature of a jog-trot, jogging; adapted for jogging along (quot. 1857).
1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxix. (ed. 2) 204 The stiff jog trot pace of our hack horses. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. Pleasant jog-trot roads, running through the great pasture-lands. 1885Black White Heather i, The jog-trot clatter of the horses' feet.
2. fig.
a. Of action, or manner of acting: Uniform and unhurried; kept up steadily without haste, and without interruption or variation; according to routine; monotonous, humdrum.
[1693Scotch Presbyt. Eloq. (1735) 116 To preach the old Jock-trot Faith and Repentance.] 1826Scott Jrnl. 17 Feb., A regular jog-trot way of busying themselves in public matters. 1877T. A. Trollope Peep beh. Sc. at Rome xvii. 228 Numbers..regret that the old jog-trot ways of the old jog-trot days were ever deserted. 1879J. Hingston Austral. Abr. i. 3 A steady jog-trot trade is now done.
b. Of persons: Acting in a jog-trot way; easy-going; keeping up a monotonous routine.
[1709M. Bruce Serm. Soul-confirm. 16 Your Old Job-troot Curats and your Old Job-troot Professors.] 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, Honest jog-trot men, who go on smoothly and dully, and write history and politics, and are praised. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xii. 191 A steady, jog-trot old fellow, who did his daily task like a horse in a mill.
C. adv. (ˈjog-trot). At a jog-trot pace.
1845Carlyle Cromwell, There came a man riding jog-trot through Stratford-at-the-bow. Mod. Dial., Northampt., He got on the old mare and went off jog-trot, about three miles an hour.
Hence ˈjog-ˈtrot v. intr., to go or move at a jog-trot, lit. and fig. (also to jog-trot it); hence ˈjog-ˈtrotting ppl. a. Also jog-ˈtrottism (nonce-wd.), jog-trot principles or practice; jog-ˈtrotty a. (nonce-wd.), of a jog-trot character.
1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 419/1 He merely desired to keep the even tenor of his way, and jog-trot it through life. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xvii, It's rather jog-trotty and hum⁓drum. 1870M. Bridgman Rob. Lynne II. viii. 162 To..be driven along the..roads at the Rector's jog-trotting pace. 1879Tinsley's Mag. XXIV. 176 Prosaic, matter-of-fact jog-trottism stands awed. 1900Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 3/2 He..compared..the War Office to a four-wheeled cab that jog-trotted on neither better nor worse year in year out. 1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 May 4/6 The latest American keep-fit craze—jogging. The idea is to jog-trot for 50 yards, then walk 50 yards and repeat this sequence until you are tired. |
