Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, solid lump, especially of gold.
- noun A small compact portion or unit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lump; a mass; especially, one of the larger lumps of native gold found in alluvial deposits or placer-mines.
- noun A thick-set, strong, young horse.
- noun A lump of tobacco.
- To steal or appropriate the unbranded calves of (one's neighbors).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal.
- noun Something of value, usually found among many other less valuable things; -- often used figuratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A small, compact
chunk orclump . - noun countable A
tidbit of something valuable. - noun uncountable A type of
boot polish . - noun countable A bud from the
Cannabis sativa plant. Usually implies dankness. - noun : (
countable ,slang ) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the record, the orange nugget is real as rain.
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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.
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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:
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The current nugget is … Eric Texier, 2000 Hermitage rouge for $69.
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A little nugget from a previous post, reprinted just for you:
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The current nugget is … Eric Texier, 2000 Hermitage rouge for $69.
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Things are no different for MySpace, as this little nugget from a research report published by J.P. Morgan shows:
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"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."
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A little nugget from a previous post, reprinted just for you:
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Another nugget from the article - Chertoff says just one airline is seeing some 9,000 false positives EVERY DAY from this list.
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Yes, imagine a really sweet, powderless, glazed Cheeto. That's basically a beaver nugget.
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bilby commented on the word nugget
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
October 18, 2008
zc0000 commented on the word nugget
With ASP.NET MVC 2 these helper methods now by default return HtmlString types – which indicates that the returned string content is safe for rendering and should not be encoded by <%: %> nuggets
April 8, 2010