From Middle English schoggen ("to shake up and down, jog"), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken ("to jolt, bounce") or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken; all from Proto-Germanic *skukkōną ("to move, shake, tremble"). More at shock.
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