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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Jogis, Jogg(i)s, Joiggis, n. pl. Also: joges; jogges, jogs; joig(g)es, joyges, goigs. [Origin obscure, but cf. Chokis 2. Cf. also Joug(g)is, Jugg(e)s and Jok(k)is.The plur. form has been taken to refer to the two hinged halves of which the collar consisted.]

An instrument of punishment for minor offences, analogous to the pillory, consisting of a hinged iron collar which was locked round the offender's neck with a padlock and was attached by a short chain to a wall or post.(For a description of several ‘jougs’ and some pictures of these, see J. Paton Sc. Nation. Memor. (1890) 331–2.)The following appar. contains an earlier mention of the same instrument: 1541 Elgin Rec. I. 59.
The said Angnes … sall … stand in the irne coiler quhill iii howris efternowne(a) 1563 St. A. Kirk S. 191.
Sche [the fornicator] is ordened to stand ane hour in the jogis this nixt Setterday, at the marcat croce 1564 Ib. 229.
The said Jhon … at the kyrk dur … [to] stand in the jogis, wyth ane papar abowt his head [etc.] 1575 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 12.
The first day … to stand in the jogis, the next day in the cokstullis 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 138.
Becaus of the monifauld blasphemeis … vsit be sindrie wemen, … that ane pair joges be sett vp vpoun the goves 1641 Kingarth Sess. Bk. 4.
N'Conichie … is injoyned to stand … bare footted, bear headed in sakcloth at the kirk dore in the joges tuell severall Sabbaths 1670 Soc. Ant. X. 655.
James Jafray … to satisfy in the joges two dayes(b) 1573 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 4.
[The treasurer] to set vp ane stoup in the fische mercat for joggis 1581 Acts III. 212/1.
[Swearers,] the puir folkis … to be put in the stokis, joggis or presonit for the space of foure houris 1587 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 510.
For bakbyting … , of William Aird, minister, … [she is] to be put in the jogs maist ewest the place quhair the falt wes done 1595 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. XXXVI. 340.
Under the pane of putting of thair craigis in the joggis 1597 Misc. Spald. C. V. 69.
Gevin to Alexr. Home for macking of joggis, steppellis and lockis to the witches 1597 Elgin Rec. II. 53.
The ane to be put in the nether joggis and the uther in the over joggis 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v.
Collistridivm, collistrigium, quod collum stringat, quhilk maie be called the joggsIb.
Timbrellvm, … ane kind of torment, as stocks or jogges 1620 Reg. Great S. 784/2.
To hald and have stockis, joggis, prissounhoussis, pitt and gallous 1637 Peebles Gleanings 157.
To be tane … to the joggis of this burgh, to be claspit, and stand thairintill … tua houris [1646 J. Maxwell] Burthen Issachar (1646) B 2.
By imprisoning the persons of the delinquents, … making them stand in ‘jogges’, as they call them, pillaries … fixed to the two sides of the maine doore of the parish-church a1653 Baillie Hist. Vindic. 17.
The lawes of the land appoint pecuniary mulcts, imprisonment, joggs, pillories and banishment for some odious crimes 1701 Stirling B. Rec. II. 95.
Such as are unwilling or unable to pay the pecuniarie mulcts [for sabbath-breaking, etc.] shall he sett in the jogs 1725 Elgin Rec. II. 331.
The session being told that their officers did refuse to put Isoble Russel in the joggs(c) 1570 St. A. Kirk S. 343.
Gelis Symsoun [for sabbath-breaking, etc.] … to sit in the joiggis xxiiij howris 1597 Elgin Rec. II. 52.
To mak thair publict repentans … , the man in the joiggis and the woman in the golffis or gokstuill 1618 M. Works Acc. XV. ii. 35 b.
For making a pair of joyges 1662 Peebles B. Rec. II. 55.
To be put on the publict joiges 1673 Elgin Rec. I. 317.
To Pay 6s. sterling and to be put in the goigs upon Friday and to stand fra nyne hors to elevine hors