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Noggin   Listen
noun
Noggin  n.  
1.
A small mug or cup.
2.
A measure equivalent to a gill. Hence: A small quantity of a beverage. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
The head (of a person). (slang)
Synonyms: noodle, noddle.






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"Noggin" Quotes from Famous Books



... tidy soup, and strained it as bright as sturgeon juice; then we got a bottle with 'Navy Supply' on a bull's-eye in the belly of it; and we filled it with the French white brandy, and the pigtail soup, and a noggin of molasses, and shook it all up well together; and a better contract-rum, your honor, never come into ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... treatises on farriery in the window; geographies, chemistries, and French grammars, on the trestles outside; for Samuel, albeit so great a philosopher as indeed to have founded quite a school, must nevertheless live. Those two cigars and that 'noggin' of whiskey, which he purchases with such a fine solemnity as he and I go home together for occasional symposia in his bachelor lodging—those, I say, come not without sale of such treatises, such geographies, chemistries, and ...
— The Book-Bills of Narcissus - An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne • Le Gallienne, Richard

... mire, in quest of something to eat. The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of sour milk for ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various

... egad, my head sings and simmers like a pot of chowder. My eyesight yaws to and again, d'ye see; then there's such a walloping and whushing in my hold—smite me—Lord have mercy upon us. Here, you swab, ne'er mind the glass, hand me the noggin." ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett



Words linked to "Noggin" :   bean, noodle, bonce



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