From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnogginnog‧gin /ˈnɒɡɪn $ ˈnɑː-/ noun [countable] old-fashioned 1 DFDDRINKa small amount of an alcoholic drink2 informalHBHINTELLIGENT your head or brain Use your noggin (=think).
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noggin• Yes, curlier even than Derek Johnstone's big dandelion noggin.• Tony tries and with his eyes watering declares it a good noggin.• If there are any horizontal joints, noggins have to be fixed between the uprights to take the edges of these boards.• They'd all gone to bed the night before when I'd returned from a last noggin with Harry.• With a spicy noggin to follow - but just the one!• The stupid thing hit me right on the noggin. 