nuggety
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the characteristics of a nugget.
Example Sentences
- "Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold."
- "Mikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets."
- "This type of nuggety gold is characteristic of deluvial and proluvial placers and appears to represent residual gold to which chemicl gold has been accreted; the whole nuggets in some cases have been extensively recrystallized."
- "Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully."
- "Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid."
- "Plastic cases that held what I knew was a single nuggety sugar rabbit—the 1960s version of today's Peeps."
Etymology
Etymology tree English nugget Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English nuggety From nugget + -y.
Inflected Forms
more nuggety (comparative)
most nuggety (superlative)