noggin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒɡɪn/    美 /ˈnɑɡɪn/|/ˈnɑɡn̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
    — Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin, or a guinea a bottle…
  2. A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
    — I don’t know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real, substantial, hospitable Scotch breakfast, and then went to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whisky to close up with.
  3. The head. slang
    — Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.
  4. A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
  5. Alternative form of nogging (“horizontal beam; rough brick masonry”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

noggins plural naggin alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
get the noggin joggin' use one's noggin

词源

Uncertain. First use appears c. 1588. Appears in publications in the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form naggin, the rare older Irish, Scottish and Northern English form noggan, used by Jonathan Swift, and the Wexford form nuggeen. Tomás S. Ó Máille and some older dictionaries like Skeat's derive it from Irish naigín, cnaigín, from cnagaire, cnag, but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that Irish naigín and Scottish Gaelic noigean instead derive from English. Compare nog.
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