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Definition of 'noggin'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A small mug, cup or ladle.
* 1889 ,
- Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin , or a guinea a bottle…
(dated) A measure equivalent to a gill. Also possibly linked to the phrase “naggin of vodka” (a small bottle of vodka).
* 1836 ,
- 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.
(slang) The head.
* 2003 , James D. Doss, Dead Soul [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312317441&id=LYVtbyi2BFEC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&ots=caRgQRq-7E&dq=%22bumped+his+noggin%22&sig=q5kBJVoKK15FwmN_EhcNVQeTPV4]
- 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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312877285&id=YNLXjR-BKSQC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&ots=Bz5V2NIwpI&dq=%22bumped+her+noggin%22&sig=iYyYDUozgqkUxVL0dFJVLrZubvc]
- She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989
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