Noggin

Noun

 * 1) A small mug, cup or ladle.
 * 2) * 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…
 * 1)  A measure equivalent to a gill. Also possibly linked to the phrase “naggin of vodka” (a small bottle of vodka).
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  The head.
 * 2) * 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul
 * Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.
 * 1) * 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.

Thesaurus
bean, brain, brow, chump, conk, crown, dome, encephalon, gray matter, head, headpiece, noddle, noodle, organ of thought, pate, poll, ridge, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory

Etymology
Origin unknown. (Irish naigín:, Scottish Gaelic noigean: are from the English.) Compare nog:.

Translations

 * Dutch:, druppelglas,


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Anagrams

 * nig-nog