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Joggis or Jogges

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The pillory. Jamieson says, “They punish delinquents, making them stand in ‘jogges,ʹ as they call their pillories.” (The word is Yoke: Latin, jugum; French, joug; Anglo-Saxon, geoc; our jug, a jail.)

“Staune ane wholl Sabothe daye in ye joggis.”—Glen: History of Dumbarton.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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