Nuggit



Nuggets

English[edit]

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A gold nugget (small, compact chunk).

Etymology[edit]

Probably a diminutive of dialectal nug(“lump, block”) +‎ -et.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: nŭg'ət, IPA(key): /ˈnʌɡət/
  • Audio (AU)

Noun[edit]

nugget (countable and uncountable, pluralnuggets)

Nugget Royale

  1. (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
    a gold nugget
  2. (countable) A chicken nugget.
    • 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
      By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
  3. (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
    a nugget of wisdom
  4. (countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
  5. (uncountable) A type of bootpolish.
  6. (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
  7. (countable,slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
    • 2009, Nick Scipio, Nereids:
      Jack stifled a smirk at the ensign's expressionless non-reaction. He'd been a nugget himself once, the new guy fresh from training.
  8. () A partialdescription gleaned from data mining.
    • 2002, Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach (page 93)
      We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most λ values […]

Derived terms[edit]

Nugget Casino Sparks

Descendants[edit]

  • → Portuguese: nugget

Translations[edit]

Nuggit
  • Armenian: բնակտոր(hy)(bnaktor)
  • Bulgarian: къс самородно злато(kǎs samorodno zlato)
  • Chinese: 块(zh)
  • Danish: klump
  • Dutch: steen(nl), klomp(nl)m
  • Esperanto: grajno(eo)
  • Finnish: hippu(fi)
  • French: pépite(fr)
  • Galician: baluzm, balugaf
  • Georgian: თვითნაბადი(tvitnabadi), თვითნაბადი ოქრო(tvitnabadi okro)
  • German: Klumpen(de)m
  • Greek: βώλος χρυσούm(vólos chrysoú)
  • Hungarian: rög(hu)
  • Italian: pepita(it)f
  • Latvian: tīrradnis(lv)m
  • Polish: bryłka(pl)
  • Portuguese: pepita(pt)f
  • Russian: саморо́док(ru)m(samoródok)
  • Spanish: pepita(es)
Nuggets
  • Finnish: jyvä(fi)
  • Bulgarian: хапка(bg)f(hapka)
  • Finnish: makupala(fi)
  • Georgian: ბრაწულა(brac̣ula)
  • French: bleu(fr)m

Portuguese[edit]

Fast food chicken nuggets from McDonald's.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Englishnugget.

Noun[edit]

nuggetm (pluralnuggets)

Nuggit
  1. A chicken nugget.

Quotations[edit]

Nuggets

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nugget.

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