noggin

Etymology

 * attested since the 1600s (e.g. in The Tincker of Turvey) in several forms including the still-current Irish English form, 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 🇨🇬, , from , , but the Oxford English Dictionary argues that 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 instead derive from English. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A small mug, cup or ladle; the contents of such a container.
 * 2)  A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
 * 3)  The head.
 * 4)  A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
 * 1)  The head.
 * 2)  A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
 * 1)  A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
 * 1)  A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
 * 1)  A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.

Alternative forms

 * naggin

Translations

 * Bulgarian: канче
 * Dutch:, druppelglas,
 * Irish: gogán
 * Polish:


 * Dutch:
 * Irish: naigín


 * Dutch:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgrog
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, huvudknopp,