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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)
- 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…
- 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch
- (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.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- (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.
- 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul [1]
- (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
- (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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noggen
English
Adjective
noggen (not comparable)
- Made of flax or hemp
Noun
noggen (uncountable)
- Coarse linen; a garment made of this.
See also
- noggin
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams
- nonegg
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