noggin
See also: noggen
English
Etymology
Origin unknown. (Irish naigín, Scottish Gaelic noigean are both from English.) Compare nog. As a drink measure, perhaps related to naggin.
Pronunciation
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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) A measure 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.
- (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
- (New Zealand) Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam”)
Translations
small mug, cup or ladle
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measure equivalent to a gill
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head
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989