nugget
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈnʌɡɪt/
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- Peter ignored him and scooped the gold nuggets into the bucket.
- gold nuggets
- nuggets of wisdom
- nuggets of information
And that right there is a key nugget of complainerhood.
- And that right there is a key nugget of complainerhood.
- It's basically just a little nugget with ears.
- So the whole story came from this little nugget, this little excitement.
- Like I think there was just like lots of good Nuggets of wisdom in there.
- It was a lump of shit, not a nugget, a log of it.
- Immediately After Max ate some Disney chicken Nuggets that didn't agree with him, B.
- You need to fuel your big machines with performance Nuggets and vitamin cheese.
- Tonight, Fraser is trying the chicken Nuggets with sweet corn.
- Knee knockers, golden Nuggets, thigh slappers, etcetera.
Examples
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Another daily nugget of recorded wisdom.
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I kept listening for that golden nugget that tells us why and how innovation occurs.
Academic text (1995) -
You are a little nugget, and you are all gold.
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It's basically just a little nugget with ears.
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So I thought, what better object to hold than a chicken nugget from McDonald's?
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Peter plunged his hand into the water and came up with a nugget the size of a cherry.
Fiction book (1995) -
Tonight, Fraser is trying the chicken Nuggets with sweet corn.
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A lot of people had done it just for the sake of gold nuggets back in 1849.
Fiction book (2002) -
There are other hidden nuggets to be mined from this self-help narrative.
Academic text (2005) -
He found a shiny nugget of gold while panning in the river.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small piece or amount of something, for example food
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3.2
A small piece of food that you eat in one bite
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6.9
A small hard lump that sticks out from a surface
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3.6
A small tasty piece of food to eat
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9.9
A small piece of fruit or corn that did not fully grow
A small lump of gold found in nature
A small round bump on a surface
Compounds
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Morphology
nugget = nug + et
The diminutive suffix '-et' conveys smallness, but the stem 'nug' is not a productive or standalone modern English word, so the meaning is partly inferable but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Nugget comes from an old short word like nug that meant 'small lump', and it became common for little bits of gold found in the gold rush. So a nugget today is any small, solid piece—something valuable like a gold nugget or a tasty piece of food like a chicken nugget.