noggin
A small mug, cup or ladleA small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
» Use your noggin.
Шевели мозгами.
Включи голову.
Значение
значений: 4A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
(сленг)The head.
Birne, Rübe
башка́bašká
informal terms for a human head
A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
Примеры
предложений: 3Use your noggin.
Шевели мозгами.
He's got nothing in that noggin.
Finally, you have nothing in the noggin!
Переводы
языков: 6По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
Uncertain. First use appears c. 1588. Appears in publications in the 1600s (e.g. in The TiUncertain. First use appears c. 1588. Appears in publications in the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form naggin, the rare older Irish, Scottish and Northern English form noggan, used by Jonathan Swift, and the Wexford form nuggeen. Tomás S. Ó Máille and some older dictionaries like Skeat's derive it from Irish naigín, cnaigín, from cnagaire, cnag, but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that Irish naigín and Scottish Gaelic noigean instead derive from English. Compare nog.
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