Definizione monolingua

noggin

noggin (plural noggins)

1. A small mug, cup or ladle.
   • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch

     Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin, or a guinea a bottle…

2. (dated) A measure equivalent to a gill. Also possibly linked to the phrase “naggin of vodka” (a small bottle of vodka).
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     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.

3. (slang) The head.
   • 2003, James D. Doss, Dead Soul [1]

     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 [2]

     She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.

Definizione dizionario noggin

Altri significati:

head

(slang) The head.

A small mug, cup or ladle.

(dated) A measure equivalent to a gill. Also possibly linked to the phrase “naggin of vodka” (a small bottle of vodka).