noll

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See also: Noll

English

Etymology

From Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (top of a sand-dune).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɒl/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒl
  • Homophone: gnoll (one pronunciation)

Noun

noll (plural nolls)

  1. (now UK regional) The head, especially the top of the head. [from 8th c.]
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
      Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll.

Swedish

Swedish cardinal numbers
0 1  > 
    Cardinal : noll

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin nūllus.

Pronunciation

Numeral

noll

  1. zero

Coordinate terms

See also


Yola

Etymology

From Middle English nol, from Old English hnoll.

Noun

noll (plural nollès)

  1. awl

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59