nugget
/ˈnʌɡət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a gold nugget"
- "Rough men brought pickle bottles full of nuggets. Mysterious dirty-looking calico bags were opened, disclosing small quantities of water-worn flaky gold, which had been washed out of the beds of rivers with a cradle."
- "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?"
- "a nugget of wisdom"
- "a nugget of truth"
- "As he has in superb works like “The Source” (based on the Afghanistan war logs leaked by Chelsea Manning) and “Sound From the Bench” (which set excerpts from Supreme Court proceedings), Hearne takes these found-text nuggets and gives them music that moves from lushly meditative to frenetic and obsessively repetitive […]"
Etymology
Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
nuggets (plural)
nuggets (present, singular)
nuggeting (participle, present)
nuggetting (participle, present)
nuggeted (participle, past)
nuggeted (past)
nuggetted (participle, past)
nuggetted (past, rare)