noggin
A small mug, cup or ladleA small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
» He's got nothing in that noggin.
Meaning
4 sensesA small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
(slang)The head.
Birne, Rübe
башка́bašká
informal terms for a human head
A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
Examples
3 sentencesHe's got nothing in that noggin.
Finally, you have nothing in the noggin!
Use your noggin.
ruШевели мозгами.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
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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