Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wooden block built into a masonry wall to hold nails that support joinery structures.
- noun A wooden peg or pin.
- noun Eggnog.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wooden pin; specifically, in ship carpentry, a treenail driven through the heel of each shore that supports the ship on the slip.
- noun One of the pins or combinations of pins and antifriction rollers in the lever of a clutch-coupling, attached to the inner sides of the bifurcations of the clutch-lever, and working in a groove turned in and entirely around the movable part of the clutch, for sliding the latter along the feather of the rotating shaft to engage it with its counterpart on the shaft to be rotated.
- noun A brick-shaped piece of wood inserted in an internal wall; a timber-brick.
- noun In mining, a cog; a square block of wood used to build up a chock or cog-pack for supporting the roof in a coal-mine.
- noun plural The shank-bones.
- In ship carpentry, to secure by a nog or treenail.
- To fill with brickwork. See
nogging . - noun A little pot; a mug; a noggin.
- noun A kind of strong ale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
- transitive verb (Shipbuilding) To fasten, as shores, with treenails.
- noun A noggin.
- noun A kind of strong ale.
- noun eggnog.
- noun A drink make from eggs beaten with milk, cream, and sugar, often spiked with rum or other alcoholic liquor, and sometimes seasoned with cinnamon; usually spelled
eggnog . It is a traditional drink served at social gatherings during the Christmas season. - noun A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
- noun One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
- noun (Shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
wooden block , the size of abrick , built into awall , as ahold for thenails ofwoodwork . - noun One of the
square logs ofwood used in apile tosupport theroof of amine . - noun shipbuilding A
treenail tofasten theshores . - noun Short for
noggin . - noun Short for
eggnog . - noun offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur A dark-skinned person;
nig-nog . - verb transitive to
fill in , as betweenscantling , withbrickwork . - verb transitive, shipbuilding to fasten, as
shores , withtreenails .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it
- noun a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Nee, op Google is Twehavioral Targeting nog niet te vinden en ook in de Twittonary komt de term nog niet voor.
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Nee, op Google is Twehavioral Targeting nog niet te vinden en ook in de Twittonary komt de term nog niet voor.
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Nee, op Google is Twehavioral Targeting nog niet te vinden en ook in de Twittonary komt de term nog niet voor.
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This ‘nog is the same recipe, but I put it on the stovetop and bring the temperature up to 160F, which is just high enough to kill off any bacteria that might be in there.
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Back then the site was an old-fashioned digital bulletin board, but lately it has added Web video and what he calls "nog," or newsy blogs.
Peytonplace.com 2009
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In East Providence there's a street called "the Wampanoag Trail", and everyone pronounces the final syllable as if it were "nog".
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I've got the DVD of It's a Wonderful Life, I've got a little egg nog, we can put some rum in it, we can make this thing happen.
HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Lawmaker Proposes Christmas Cuddle Summit Eliot Nelson 2011
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Now go drink some egg nog … but first watch this video.
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December, 2009: You were enjoying the holidays, drinking nog, wrapping prezzies, hugging puppies.
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The waffle batter was poured into 10 neatly lined up plastic cups which I thought was egg nog.
Elizabeth Donoghue: Observations on the College Tour Elizabeth Donoghue 2011
chained_bear commented on the word nog
"Nog, a name given by shipwrights to a tree-nail drove through the heel of each shore that supports the ship on the slip."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 321
October 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word nog
I miss the link to Online Etymological Dictionary such as we used to have on YOW. Any reason why it isn't included in the sources referred to when clicking Etymologies above?
I was looking for the etymology of the nog component of egg-nog.
November 19, 2009
reesetee commented on the word nog
I miss it too. Would be nice to have back. :-)
November 24, 2009