noggin
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8.7
- noun
- /ˈnɑɡɪn/
- Informal
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cabeza
- Okay, use your noggin, you can do better than that.
- ol' noggin
- bump your noggin
- bald noggin
We hope we got those brain cells jumping around in that noggin of yours.
- We hope we got those brain cells jumping around in that noggin of yours.
- I'm all for providing your perspective and getting your noggin thinking.
- AMC fucking dips or you hit a metal steel fucking beam with your noggin.
- What it should be really about is cramming as much knowledge into the empty noggins of these pathetic cry babies as is possible in four years.
Examples
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That's what is in my noggin this week.
Blog text (26) -
I think there's something more going on in that noggin of yours.
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That way, everything will still be up front of my noggin by the time I take the test.
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Use your noggin before the fact, not after.
Blog text (1) -
We hope we got those brain cells jumping around in that noggin of yours.
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I'm all for providing your perspective and getting your noggin thinking.
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I sat here last night and wrote five pages of things that were going around in my noggin.
Fiction book (1999) -
But what are we doing to keep the old noggin in tip-top shape?
Blog text (16) -
What'd you do to your noggin?
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He bumped his noggin when he stood up too quickly.
Synonyms
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1.8
The rounded top part of something, like a bone or tool
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9.3
A person's head in informal speech
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8.3
A playful word for a person's head
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8.2
A person's head in informal speech
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9.0
The top part of a person's body that people mean as a joke or in informal talk
A person's head, used informally in British English
The part of a person used for thinking in a joking way
Idioms
How Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word noggin probably began as a name for a small wooden lump or little cup, from nog meaning 'small lump' or 'block'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of your head as a small rounded lump, so noggin now means 'a person's head' in a friendly, informal way.