noggin
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation 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
- 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
- She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.
- 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul
- (biochemistry) A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
- (NZ) Alternative form of nogging#English|nogging (“horizontal beam”)
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