Old Sayings.

[Terry Wilcox]

Hi All. Can any one tell me where the word "NOGGING" came from? I joined a ship and one of the officers invited me into his cabin and asked if I would like a noggin, ( no comments please) it was a shot of spirits. Also any other nautical sayings. Take care..... Terry

[Tony Wilding]

all i can find is nogging refers to a short horizontal piece of wood in studwork for walls, also a name of strong ale from east anglia from olden times.

[Albert Bishop]

Terry mate, I think you will find a noggin is an old term for a quarter pint, What us oldies remember as a gill. Albi.

[John Albert Evans]

Noggin is a small cup also slang for the head of a body. When I was a child I can remember my mother using the word noggin refering to my head.

John

[Albert Bishop]

Noggins were also used quite a bit in woodwork John, Often as wedges between floor joists. So it seems your Ma Thought you were a bit of a wooden head, As most of our mothers probably thought we all were. Cheers, Albi.

[john sutton]

a copy of this book might assist.SHIP TO SHORE by peter d jeans.400 pages of nautical words and sayings.
john sutton

[Tony Wilding]

origins of Skin out and Ringbolt, ?

[Tony Morcom]

a copy of this book might assist.SHIP TO SHORE

Hi John etc

Good suggestion John. I had overlooked this topic before. Having just consulted the book it lists the following:
Small cup or mug
Small quantity of liquor usually a quarter of a pint
"Nog" was a strong beer brewed in East Anglia
Noggin also is the sailor's word for a tub fashioned from a cut down cask or keg
As a slang expression it also is used to refer to one's head ie "He used his noggin for once..." as others might say "he used his loaf for once"

So as can be seen most of these answers had already been given by various members. Well done one and all.

The same publication makes no obvious mention of either Skin Out or Ring Bolt.

[happy daze john in oz]

Skin out, possibly from the practice of using animal skins on the canoes and Coracles of an earlier age? Have heard the term in Kent in reference to skining pigs.

[John Pruden]

were did the term whamy come from? any takers.john