Noggin

Definition: Noggin

Noggin

Noun

1. Informal terms for a human head.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "noggin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Note: Noggin \Nog"gin\, noun. [Ir. noigin, or Gaelic noigean. Compare to lst Nog.]. (references)

Synonyms: Noggin

Intellect

Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull,

Receptacle

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Noggin the Nog (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• God's Noggin Nudgers (reference)

• Noggin and Bobbin by the Sea (reference)

• Noggin and Bobbin in the Garden (reference)

• Noggin and the Whale (reference)

• Snow Tires For Your Brain : A Layperson's Guide To Using The Old Noggin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

një gotëz pije, kokë (block, bulb, catchword, conk, dome, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, pommel), bardhak i vogël. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوز صغير, ‏رأس (apex, bean, cos, head, pate, point, poll, preside, superintend, tip, top, trunk, vertex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

четвърт пинт, тиква (knob, loaf, nob, noddle, nut, onion, pate, pumpkin, squash), канче (canakin, canikin, cannikin, mug, pannikin, pot), каничка, глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot). (various references)

Czech

èlun ze dřeva. (various references)

French

tête (noodle), quart de pinte, pot, caboche (nob, noddle). (various references)

German

Holzkrug, birne (bulb, noodle, nut, pate, pear), becher (beaker, beakers, chalice, cup, goblet, jug, mug, tub, tumbler, tumblers). (various references)

Hungarian

kis ónedény. (various references)

Italian

piccolo boccale, boccaletto. (various references)

Manx

goggan (piggin). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogginnay.(various references)

Portuguese

caneca pequena (gill). (various references)

Romanian

tãrtãcuţã (gourd, nut), dovleac (chump, knob, nob, noddle, nut, pate, pumpkin, sconce), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), canã micã, cãniţã. (various references)

Russian 

четверть пинты (quartern), голова (bonce, chump, conk, head, jowl, knob, nob, noodle, nut, pate, think-tank), маленькая кружка, башка (cocoanut, nob, noddle, noodlehead, thinking mug, think-tank, tupenny). (various references)

Scottish

noigean (a noggin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

testija (jug, nog), mera za tečnost (hogshead, kilderkin, liquid measure, pottle), glava (head, headpiece, knob, loaf, noddle, noodle, pate, scone), ćup (jar). (various references)

Spanish

vaso pequeño, vaso (beaker, glass, tumbler, vase, vessel), caña (boot, bootleg, cane, fishing rod, glass, leg, marram-grass, pint, Reed, rod, shaft, shank, shin, stem). (various references)

Swedish

skalle (conk, cranium, crumpet, dome, loaf, noddle, pate, skull), liten mugg. (various references)

Turkish

ufak bardak, kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), içki ölçüsü. (various references)

Ukrainian

чверть пінти, кухлик (cannikin), голова (attic, bean, chair, chairman, chief, conk, head, nob, noddle, noodle, nut, onion, pate, president, topknot), макітра (chump, garret, noddle, noodle, nut, onion). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "noggin": nogging, noggings, noggins. (additional references)

Words containing "noggin": snogging. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Noggin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goggin, Nagan, nagini, negi, Neguib, Neogen, Ngongo, Ngozion, Niggaz, nigging, noga, nogan, nogg, nogging, noggon, nogi, nogin, nogon, nougan, Nsgi, nyggin, oggin, Ongjin, Roggin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: going.

-2 letters: gong, nogg.

-3 letters: gig, gin, inn, ion, nog.

-4 letters: go, in, no, on.

+1 letter: bonging, gonging, gowning, ingoing, longing, nogging, noggins, ongoing, ponging, tonging.

+2 letters: coigning, congaing, dingdong, ganglion, groaning, groining, ignoring, ingoting, longeing, longings, lounging, noggings, noodging, pronging, singsong, snogging, sponging, tangoing, tonguing, wagoning, wronging.

+3 letters: agonising, agonizing, belonging, cognising, cognizing, congeeing, cosigning, dingdongs, doggoning, dognaping, eloigning, englobing, engorging, gammoning, ganglions, gorgonian, governing, grounding, ingrowing, jargoning, longingly, mongering, montaging, nightgown, nightlong, oppugning, singsongs, singsongy, thronging, tonguings, ungloving, waggoning, youngling.