Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, solid lump, especially of gold.
- n. A small compact portion or unit: nuggets of information.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lump; a mass; especially, one of the larger lumps of native gold found in alluvial deposits or placer-mines.
- n. A thick-set, strong, young horse.
- n. A lump of tobacco.
- To steal or appropriate the unbranded calves of (one's neighbors).
Wiktionary
- n. countable A small, compact chunk or clump.
- n. countable A tidbit of something valuable.
- n. uncountable A type of boot polish.
- n. countable A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant. Usually implies dankness.
- n. : (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal.
- n. Something of value, usually found among many other less valuable things; -- often used figuratively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
Etymologies
- Perhaps diminutive of English dialectal nug, lump. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Things are no different for MySpace, as this little nugget from a research report published by J.P. Morgan shows:”
“Once again, it falls to me to read the complete story that trhe idiot troll posts, and to post this nugget from the same story:”
“For all anybody knows," he said, pointing to a hillside across the creek bottom, "the moss under the snow there may be plumb rooted in nugget gold.”
“The current nugget is … Eric Texier, 2000 Hermitage rouge for $69.”
“There is one interesting nugget from the CNN topline data that may shed light on what demographic segment might make the biggest difference in Castle's decision.”
The Huffington Post: David C. Wilson: Polling Delaware?...the Missing Horse Race
“A little nugget from a previous post, reprinted just for you:”
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
“For the record, the orange nugget is real as rain.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What I found in my Dorito bag today…
“Another nugget from the article - Chertoff says just one airline is seeing some 9,000 false positives EVERY DAY from this list.”
“Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again.”
“Finally, The Monkey Tennis Center has plucked a nugget from a routine New York Times assault on Blackwater, the firm that provides a large proportion of the private security guards in Iraq.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nugget’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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The Little Things
minutiae, thingamajig, wee, doodad, nuts 'n' bolts, widget, speck, mote, mite, modicum, iota, nano and 7 more...
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Words I Hate
jocular, moist, slacks, sac, nugget, panties, engorged, pustule, loaf, badonkadonk, succor, groin
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words I cannot stand
If you say these words in my presence, I might harpoon you.
nougat, morsel, dumpling, chortle, hubris, niche, carmel, sippy cup, moist, yogilates, boysenberry, slather and 43 more...
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condiment, tortoise shell, virile, wolverine, chyme, aeons, grotesque, pontiferous, blurb, dais, squiffy, decadent and 88 more...
Tweets
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bilby God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog! Oct 18, 2008