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
The researchers found that about 30 percent of female birds boast bright blue noggins as adults.
Analyze This: Some female hummingbirds go undercover | Carolyn Wilke | October 5, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThis reliability, the authors posit, makes your noggin feel safe, which allows it to recharge.
These will all help your noggin relax as best as it can, and you’ll be finding little moments of zen in no time.
Its fuselage resembles a sleek blimp, or maybe the noggins of the Coneheads of Saturday Night Live yore.
This weird-looking plane could someday be a fast, clean option for air travel | Rob Verger | September 28, 2020 | Popular-ScienceMeanwhile, the tiny noggins might be useful for burrowing or chasing down insects underground.
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 StephensMaybe 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
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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