noggin

[ nog-uhn ]

noun

1. a small cup or mug.
2. a small amount of alcoholic liquor, usually a gill.
3. Informal. a person's head.

noggin

/ ˈnɒɡɪn /

noun

1. a small quantity of spirits, usually 1 gill
2. a small mug or cup
3. See head
   an informal word for head

Word History and Origins

Origin of noggin¹

First recorded in 1620–30; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of noggin¹

C17: of obscure origin

Example Sentences

The researchers found that about 30 percent of female birds boast bright blue noggins as adults.

From Science News For Students

This reliability, the authors posit, makes your noggin feel safe, which allows it to recharge.

From Popular-Science

These will all help your noggin relax as best as it can, and you’ll be finding little moments of zen in no time.

From Popular-Science

Its fuselage resembles a sleek blimp, or maybe the noggins of the Coneheads of Saturday Night Live yore.

From Popular-Science

Meanwhile, the tiny noggins might be useful for burrowing or chasing down insects underground.

From Popular-Science

Virtual electronic brain is to be trusted; brain inside our noggin, and instincts therein, is to be suspected.

From The Daily Beast

Watch video of others who took a cream pie to the noggin after Soupy set the standard.

From The Daily Beast

Noggin; a small vessel, now understood to hold two glasses; also called naggin.

From Project Gutenberg

And Flint could have 207 had his noggin without anybody disturbing him, even if the contract read otherwise.

From Project Gutenberg

"There's always a bit of griddle bread or potato cake, and a noggin of milk for a friend," said he.

From Project Gutenberg

Maybe he listened, absorbing the meaning and sound of words, trying them out in the silence of his otherwise vacant little noggin.

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Perched on one of the lower branches of a wayside oak, Will Noggin was pointing a shaking finger in the direction he named.

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