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How to spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin

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  • 19-04-2010 9:41am
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    Dave_The_Sheep
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    Discussion in work. How do you spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin, of Vodka for example. 200ml I believe it is, but am open to correction.

    Google is inconclusive, Wikipedia has no entry. Encyplopedia seems to suggest Nagan.

    I'd have gone for Naggin myself.
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    Dravokivich
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    I always just referred to it as the "small bottle."


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    orourkeda
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    Drink, booze, gargle, spirits.

    It's naggin


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    stovelid
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    I always wondered why they couldn't just incorporate the spelling Nagon in order to link it with Flagon and harmonize alfresco knacker drinking standards?


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    NothingMan
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    In before your locked.




    Sorry.


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    ejmaztec
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    Noggin.:P


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    orourkeda
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    Wagon


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    johnnyrotten
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    Stop Nagging, naggin , nagin , noggin me with stupid threads


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    D.U.M.B
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    Call it breakfast!


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    #10
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,380 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Too much to expect I suppose. :-)


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    ejmaztec
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    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Too much to expect I suppose. :-)

    If at first you don't succeed................................

    http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/27

    Noggin Nog"gin noun [ Ir. noigin , or Gael. noigean . Confer lst Nog .] 1. A small mug or cup.

    2. A measure equivalent to a gill. [ Prov. Eng.]


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    minidazzler
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    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Discussion in work. How do you spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin, of Vodka for example. 200ml I believe it is, but am open to correction.

    Google is inconclusive, Wikipedia has no entry. Encyplopedia seems to suggest Nagan.

    I'd have gone for Naggin myself.

    You are using the wrong dictionary TBH.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=naggin

    The only dictionary you will ever need!


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    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,380 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    minidazzler wrote: »
    You are using the wrong dictionary TBH.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=naggin

    The only dictionary you will ever need!

    It also has entries for the other two:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nagin
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nagan

    Tried Urbandictionary alright, the trouble is it tends to accept results from people who can't spell. First time its let me down though.


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    happyfriday
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    I'd spell it Naggin myself. I'd imagine that 'Nagan' is the way they say it and spell it in posh areas!! :D


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    Sykk
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    I didn't know anyone who wasn't fifteen said that word..?


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    minidazzler
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    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    It also has entries for the other two:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nagin
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nagan

    Tried Urbandictionary alright, the trouble is it tends to accept results from people who can't spell. First time its let me down though.

    Look at the definitions given for those 2. Completely wrong. Naggin is the accepted spelling TBH.

    A naggin is generally 200 ml. Not 400 as professed in Nagan. And is not a quarter bottle of anything TBH.
    Sykk wrote: »
    I didn't know anyone who wasn't fifteen said that word..?

    Very true. I don't use the word because I don't use that size bottle. It's fcuking tiny and gone after 2 glasses!


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    Dave_The_Sheep
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    Sykk wrote: »
    I didn't know anyone who wasn't fifteen said that word..?

    You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

    I'm not asking you to say it. I'm asking you to spell it.


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    pickarooney
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    I only found out recently that 'flagon' was not a worldwide standard size. Gutted I was (though that my have been the Bulmers pear).


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    stovelid
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    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Discussion in work. How do you spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin,

    Civil service, I presume?


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    GavRedKing
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    Nagin or Naggin I would say. Either or really. I dont think it matters to much.


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    Orla K
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    Sykk wrote: »
    I didn't know anyone who wasn't fifteen said that word..?

    My granny uses those words, she likes her naggin of Paddys


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    Dave_The_Sheep
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Civil service, I presume?

    Oddly enough, no. Private sector.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    Naggin.


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    mikom
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    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Discussion in work. How do you spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin,

    Is this a public sector nagin or a private sector nagin?

    If it's public sector, then you better be working for weights and measures buddy.
    Otherwise..... BACK TO WORK.


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    we'llallhavetea_old
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    naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"? :o


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    wireless101
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    "Naggin" is just the Irish rip off of the actual term "noggin" I believe


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    GavRedKing
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    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"? :o

    No, used to, all still call them "double naggins" even though there not a double at all.


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    #28
    Overheal
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    Nagon, I always did


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    Theta
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    Naggin is the way its spelt on some of the supplier sheets I used to see.


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    minidazzler
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    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"? :o

    Daddy naggin? lol.

    Call the next one up a double or a shoulder.


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    Theta
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    minidazzler wrote: »
    Daddy naggin? lol.

    Call the next one up a double or a shoulder.

    Its not double though. Its called a half or a shoulder.


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