noggin
a small cup or mug.
a small amount of alcoholic liquor, usually a gill.
Informal. a person's head.
Origin of noggin
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How to use noggin in a sentence
Virtual electronic brain is to be trusted; brain inside our noggin, and instincts therein, is to be suspected.
Google Glass’s Insane, Terrifying Etiquette Guide | Tim Teeman | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWatch video of others who took a cream pie to the noggin after Soupy set the standard.
noggin; a small vessel, now understood to hold two glasses; also called naggin.
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. JoyceAnd Flint could have 207 had his noggin without anybody disturbing him, even if the contract read otherwise.
The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath"There's always a bit of griddle bread or potato cake, and a noggin of milk for a friend," said he.
The Crock of Gold | James Stephens
Maybe he listened, absorbing the meaning and sound of words, trying them out in the silence of his otherwise vacant little noggin.
The Short Life | Francis DonovanPerched on one of the lower branches of a wayside oak, Will noggin was pointing a shaking finger in the direction he named.
Berry And Co. | Dornford Yates
British Dictionary definitions for noggin
/ (ˈnɒɡɪn) /
Origin of noggin
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