noggin

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Medium, in which Patricia Arquette's Allison Dubois gets Gloria Gaynor's '' I Will Survive '' stuck in her head, one scene in particular got lodged in my noggin -- and it made me realize there's no show on network TV that better depicts the details of modern family life.

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  1. noun A small mug or cup.
  2. noun A unit of liquid measure equal to one quarter of a pint.
  3. noun Slang The human head.

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  • Suspended above the woeful inventor's noggin was a thought balloon filled with colorful graphic images: Gyro strung from a noose, Gyro with his head in a guillotine, Gyro wilting under a hail of stones thrown by an angry mob of citizens. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • He had to clear his reeling noggin, and get moving, and find Tandy a good human-type husband so the demon wouldn't bother her any more. —  Ogre Ogre
  • As I was rubbing my tender belly and nursing my throbbing noggin, my eye fell upon a basket of woven willow in the corner by my left boot. —  FSF,October2007
  • The only thing I can wear to keep the rain off my noggin is a dixie cup. —  AdventureTales#1
  • She'd lash out, and at this point a few bumps on her noggin weren't going to hurt her. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
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  1. Also naggin, formerly sometimes knoggin; from Irish noigin = Gaelic noigean, a wooden cup; cf. Gaelic cnagan, an earthen pipkin; Irish cnagaire, a noggin; from Irish Gaelic cnag, a knob, peg, knock, etc.: see knag. Cf. nog.
 

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