noggin

[ nog-uh n ]

/ ˈnɒg ən /

a small cup or mug.

a small amount of alcoholic liquor, usually a gill.

Informal. a person's head.

Origin of noggin

First recorded in 1620–30; origin uncertain

nogai, nogaku, nogales, nogay, nogg, noggin, nogging, noginsk, noguchi, noh, nohow

Virtual electronic brain is to be trusted; brain inside our noggin, and instincts therein, is to be suspected.

Google Glass’s Insane, Terrifying Etiquette Guide |Tim Teeman |February 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Watch video of others who took a cream pie to the noggin after Soupy set the standard.

The 6 Best Pie-in-the-Face Pranks |The Daily Beast Video |October 23, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
Noggin said no more; and now everybody was busily engaged in preparing to start.

Dick Onslow |W.H.G. Kingston
Work one pound to a cream with a noggin of brandy; then add to it by degrees your sugar, continuing to beat it very light.

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; |Charlotte Campbell Bury

And in the bottom o' the carriage they be to put a noggin o' rum in a small bottle, and chalk it up to my account.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles |Thomas Hardy
When you get a notion in that noggin, it doesn't come out easily.

The Flaming Mountain |Harold Leland Goodwin
The Noggin, without the adjective, occurs at a few places in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

The History of Signboards |Jacob Larwood

noggin

/ (ˈnɒɡɪn) /

a small quantity of spirits, usually 1 gill

a small mug or cup

an informal word for head (def. 1)

C17: of obscure origin