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naggin

English

Etymology

A variant of noggin.

Noun

naggin (plural naggins)

  1. (especially Ireland) A small measure of spirits; alternative form of noggin.
    a naggin of whisky

References

Anagrams

  • ingang

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noggin

English

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; attested since the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form naggin, the rare older Irish, Scottish and Northern English form noggan, used by Jonathan Swift, and the Wexford form nuggeen. Tomás S. Ó Máille and some older dictionaries like Skeat's derive it from Irish naigín, cnaigín, from cnagaire, cnag, but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that Irish naigín and Scottish Gaelic noigean instead derive from English. Compare nog.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?n???n/, /?n??n?/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /?n???n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

noggin (plural noggins)

  1. A small mug, cup or ladle.
    • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch
      Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin, or a guinea a bottle…
  2. (dated outside dialects) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      I don’t know whether...you...ever...went out to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whiskey to close up with.
  3. (slang) The head.
    • 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul [1]
      Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.
    • 2003, John Farris, The Fury and the Power [2]
      She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.
  4. (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
  5. (New Zealand) Alternative form of nogging (horizontal beam)

Alternative forms

  • (measure of spirits): naggin (still current in Ireland)

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • nig-nog, nignog

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