as in head
the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth
watch the lintel above the door, unless you want to bang your noggin
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Recent Examples of noggin
Giro, Bell, Smith, POC, and Kask are all reputable brands with a wide range of shapes to fit bulbous and diminutive noggins alike.
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Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
The show also functions very much as a love letter to that devil’s playground called Times Square, where Betty finds characters that look like her but have even bigger noggins.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
No more dragging the reindeer down from the attic, cursing as hooves knock you on the noggin, a new piece missing each year.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 16 Dec. 2024
The best practices can be in your noggin and undertaken by hand, or in this case the meta-prompt will get the AI to do so on your behalf.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
The show also functions very much as a love letter to that devil’s playground called Times Square, where Betty finds characters that look like her but have even bigger noggins.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
No more dragging the reindeer down from the attic, cursing as hooves knock you on the noggin, a new piece missing each year.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 16 Dec. 2024
The best practices can be in your noggin and undertaken by hand, or in this case the meta-prompt will get the AI to do so on your behalf.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noggin
Noun
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There's always one shot that leaves a golfer shaking his or her head.—
Mike Hutton,
Post-Tribune,
19 July 2017
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Delimitros said one of the truck’s side view mirrors struck her in the head, causing minor injuries.—
David Hernandez,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
19 July 2017
Noun
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The skull, last documented in 1997, is believed to remain in the vault, although its precise condition is not fully known.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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The 10-month-old baby was taken to a hospital with a skull fracture and retinal hemorrhages, which caused a brain bleed, KDKA reported.—
Mike Stunson,
Miami Herald,
21 July 2025
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“Noggin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noggin. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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