nog

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And Christmas Eve they make egg-nog, and Uncle Bushrod makes the apple toddy two weeks before."

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  1. noun A wooden block built into a masonry wall to hold nails that support joinery structures.
  2. noun A wooden peg or pin.
  3. noun Eggnog.

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  • So Howard try laying off the egg nog, and the caps lock key. —  Blog updates
  • Refusing rum and egg nog is kind of like repudiating Dickens or blaspheming Santa. —  Orangeville
  • This year though, resisting the rum and egg nog wasn't much of a challenge because I was too busy during most of the holidays. —  Orangeville
  • For those of you taking time out from decking the halls and downing the nog, here's a little holiday something from the yuk merchants at —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • Some people dont give him much credit because they think nog was just off that night .. coming to think of it - rankings as a snapshot of the Champion and a sequential line of contenders are problematic in terms of title shots. —  Bloody Elbow
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. A variant of knag; cf. Swedish knagg, a knot, knag, = Danish knag, knage, a knot, a wooden peg, the cog of a wheel: see knag.
  2. from nog, n.
  3. Abbr. of noggin.
 

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