noll

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (top of a sand-dune).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /nɒl/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒl
  • Homophone: gnoll (one pronunciation)

Noun[edit]

noll (plural nolls)

  1. (obsolete) The head, especially the top of the head. [from 8th c.]
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
      Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll.

Swedish[edit]

Swedish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : noll

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin nūllus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Numeral[edit]

noll

  1. zero

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Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English nolle, from Old English hnoll.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

noll (plural nollès)

  1. awl
    Synonym: managh

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59