noogie

Meanings

Noun

• 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.

Verb

• To perform a noogie on.

Related

Similar words

• Dutch rub

Origin

• Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען ("to badger"), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות ("afflict") (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.