"noogie" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnʊɡi/ Audio: En-au-noogie.ogg [Australia] Forms: noogies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊɡi Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown, {{der|en|yi|נודזשען||to badger|sc=Hebr}} Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), {{der|en|he|נוגות||afflict|tr=nugot}} Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”), {{m|en|nudge}} nudge, {{m|en|wedge}} wedge, {{m|en|wedgie}} wedgie Head templates: {{en-noun}} noogie (plural noogies)
  1. (slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly. Tags: slang Synonyms: Dutch rub Translations (knuckle rub on head): kolipottu (Finnish), Kopfnuss [feminine] (German), barack (Hungarian), めーごーさー (meegoosaa) (Okinawan), cascudo [masculine] (Portuguese), coscorrón [masculine] (Spanish), cocacho (english: S America) [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-noogie-en-noun-zRcAyS1W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: noogy, nuggie, nuggy, nugie

Verb

IPA: /ˈnʊɡi/ Audio: En-au-noogie.ogg [Australia] Forms: noogies [present, singular, third-person], noogying [participle, present], noogied [participle, past], noogied [past]
Rhymes: -ʊɡi Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie. Etymology templates: {{unk|en}} Unknown, {{der|en|yi|נודזשען||to badger|sc=Hebr}} Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), {{der|en|he|נוגות||afflict|tr=nugot}} Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”), {{m|en|nudge}} nudge, {{m|en|wedge}} wedge, {{m|en|wedgie}} wedgie Head templates: {{en-verb}} noogie (third-person singular simple present noogies, present participle noogying, simple past and past participle noogied)
  1. (slang) To perform a noogie on. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-noogie-en-verb-p5Cnsf9U
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: noogy, nuggie, nuggy, nugie

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for noogie meaning in English (5.7kB)

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