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Eggnog Dictionary", "nog" was "a kind of strong beer brewed in East Anglia". The first known use of the word "nog" was in 1693. Alternatively, "nog" may stem from "noggin", a Middle English term for a small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol. However, the British drink was also called an "Egg Flip", from the practice of "flipping" (rapidly pouring) the mixture between two pitchers to mix it. One dictionary lists the word "eggnog" as being an Americanism invented in 1765-75. Babson College professor Frederick Douglass Opie "wrote that the term is a combination of two colonial slang words —