Nogged vs Cogged - What's the difference?
nogged | cogged |
(nog)
A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
(shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.
to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
(shipbuilding) to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
(AU, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.
(cog)
(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.
A tooth on a gear
A gear; a cogwheel
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
* 1988,
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
* Jonathan Swift
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
* Shakespeare
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
* J. Dennis
As verbs the difference between nogged and cogged
is that nogged is (nog) while cogged is (cog).nogged
English
Verb
(head)nog
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(nogg)Etymology 2
Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----cogged
English
Verb
(head)cog
English
(wikipedia cog)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.Noun
(en noun)- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .
Derived terms
* cog jointVerb
(cogg)Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.Verb
(cogg)- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
- I'll cog their hearts from them.
- to cog in a word
- Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.