Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nug

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English

Syllables: nug
IPA

4

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lump; a block.

noun

A piece of marijuana.

Slang

noun

A chicken nugget.

Slang

noun

Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”).

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose."
"A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.”"

Etymology

From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of uncertain origin. Probably from earlier *knug, *knugg, *knogg, related to dialectal Norwegian knugg (“knot, knob”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knuk- (“to ball up, mass together”), making it further related to English knock and knuckle.

Origin

Source language: Proto-Germanic

Word Breakdown

Root: *knuk-

Usage

Inflected Forms

nugs (plural) nudge (alternative) nugg (alternative) nogg (alternative) nog (alternative) knog (alternative)

Synonyms

bud nuggie

Questions

What does nug mean?: A lump; a block.
Where does nug come from?: It is traced to Proto-Germanic.

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