How to spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin

Dave_The_Sheep

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.

Dravokivich

I always just referred to it as the "small bottle."

orourkeda

Drink, booze, gargle, spirits.

It's naggin

stovelid

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?

NothingMan

In before your locked.




Sorry.

ejmaztec

Noggin.:P

orourkeda

Wagon

johnnyrotten

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

D.U.M.B

Call it breakfast!

Dave_The_Sheep

Too much to expect I suppose. :-)

ejmaztec

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.]

minidazzler

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!

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.

happyfriday

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

Sykk

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

minidazzler

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!

Dave_The_Sheep

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.

pickarooney

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

stovelid

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Discussion in work. How do you spell Naggin/Nagan/Nagin,

Civil service, I presume?

GavRedKing

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

Orla K

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

Dave_The_Sheep

stovelid wrote: »

Civil service, I presume?

Oddly enough, no. Private sector.

Tar.Aldarion

Naggin.

mikom

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.

we'llallhavetea_old

naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"?

wireless101

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

GavRedKing

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"?

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

Overheal

Nagon, I always did

Theta

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

minidazzler

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

naggin for the 200ml and did anyone else call the next size up a "daddy naggin"?

Daddy naggin? lol.

Call the next one up a double or a shoulder.

Theta

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.

minidazzler

Theta wrote: »

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

It's not half either TBH! It's one shot off double so double is close enough!

I would call it a 375 ml though.

Theta

It is 350ml though which is half a bottle!

A half of wine is 375ml.

1071823928

naggin.... then a daddy naggin!!!

Sofaspud

Theta wrote: »

It is 350ml though which is half a bottle!

It's a full 350ml bottle!

It'd be half a bottle if it was a half full 700ml bottle!

Or half empty, of course.

stephen_mch

Where does the whole shoulder thing come from? Never got that one and it drives me mad!

robinph

Sofaspud wrote: »

It's a full 350ml bottle!

It'd be half a bottle if it was a half full 700ml bottle!

Or half empty, of course.

A half bottle, not half a bottle.

joewicklow

I call shenanaggins (sorry)

PirateGirl

naggon is the way i spell it...

Jev/N

Naggin = 200 ml
Shoulder = 350 ml

Funnily enough they had a 100 ml size in England, larger that what I would call a 'shot bottle'

concussion

Colloquially I've only heard naggin but it should be noggin and is the same measure as a gill. According to NASA and the University of North Carolina it should also be 142 ml as opposed to 200 ml

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictN.html
http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/3Page17.pdf

Gordon

I prefer supping my buckfast from a Nebuchadnezzar.

chocolate biscuits

I've often had the same dissucion myself! I would say naggan personally. I've know it to be called lagan either though