nog

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

nog (plural nogs)

1. A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
2. One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
3. (shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.

nog (third-person singular simple present nogs, present participle nogging, simple past and past participle nogged)

1. (transitive) to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
2. (transitive, shipbuilding) to fasten, as shores, with treenails.

nog (plural nogs)

1. Short for noggin.

nog (countable and uncountable, plural nogs)

1. Abbreviation of eggnog.
2. (obsolete) A kind of strong ale.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Shortened from nig-nog.

nog (plural nogs)

1. (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
2. (Australia, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.

• -gon, NGO, Ngo, gon, gon', gon-

From Dutch nog, from Middle Dutch noch, from Old Dutch noch (“until now, still”), from Proto-Germanic *nuh (“still”, literally “now too”), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”) + *-kʷe- (“and, also”).

• IPA^(key): /nɔχ/

nog

1. still
2. (with negation) yet

From Middle Dutch noch, from Old Dutch noch (“until now, still”), from Proto-Germanic *nuh (“still”, literally “now too”), from Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”) + *-kʷe- (“and, also”).

• IPA^(key): /nɔx/

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• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Homophone: noch

nog

1. still, as before

   Nu is de auto nog mooi en schoon, maar na een paar jaar niet meer.

   Now the car is still nice and clean, but after a few years it won't be anymore.

   Ik heb nog genoeg aardappelen, ik heb niet meer nodig.

   I still have enough potatoes, I don't need more.

2. (in negative phrases) yet

   Hij is nog niet gekomen.

   He has not come yet.

3. (with an amount) more, in addition

   Ik geef je nog één kans om het te raden.

   I'm giving you one more chance to guess it.

   Ik zie nog twee vliegtuigen.

   I see two more planes.

From Old Norse nóg, nógr, gnógr, from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz.

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nog (not comparable)

1. enough, sufficient

   Har vi nog med mat för picknicken?

   Do we have enough food for the picnic?

2. probably

   Det har vi nog.

   We probably do (have that).

nog

1. water

• This is the form Lehmann says is given in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists; the form given in Johnston's vocabulary is nuc.

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

nog

1. (with negation) yet