What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Naggin vs Noggin - What's the difference?

naggin | noggin |

As nouns the difference between naggin and noggin

is that naggin is a small measure of spirits while noggin is a small mug, cup or ladle.

naggin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small measure of spirits.
    • a naggin of whisky

    noggin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small mug, cup or ladle.
  • * 1889 ,
    • Here Nat Adams, the burly bar-keeper, dispensed bad whisky at the rate of two shillings a noggin , or a guinea a bottle…
  • (dated) A measure equivalent to a gill. Also possibly linked to the phrase “naggin of vodka” (a small bottle of vodka).
  • * 1836 ,
    • I don’t know whether…you…ever…went out to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whiskey to close up with.
  • (slang) The head.
  • * 2003 , James D. Doss, Dead Soul [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312317441&id=LYVtbyi2BFEC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&ots=caRgQRq-7E&dq=%22bumped+his+noggin%22&sig=q5kBJVoKK15FwmN_EhcNVQeTPV4]
    • Or maybe he bumped his noggin when he fell down—after he got clipped on the legs.
  • * 2003 , John Farris, The Fury and the Power [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0312877285&id=YNLXjR-BKSQC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&ots=Bz5V2NIwpI&dq=%22bumped+her+noggin%22&sig=iYyYDUozgqkUxVL0dFJVLrZubvc]
    • She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness.

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

    Anagrams

    *