Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

NUG

"NUG" is a common misspelling or typo for: mug, nag, nub, nun, nut, snug.


Specialty Definition: NUG

DomainDefinition

Energy

A non-utility generator. A generationfacility owned and operated by an entity who is not defined as a utilityin that jurisdictional area. (references)

Slang

Noun. Source: It comes from the phrase "golden nugget" or "a nugget of gold". Definition: The word means any buds from any high quality marijuana plant. It is usually a complete bud that is very high in density. Context: It is used during reference to small amounts of high quality pot. Social Source: Westcoast pot smokers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
 Noun. Source: . Definition: A nug is a clump of marijuana leaves. Context: When refering to marijuana. Social Source: Botanical Hedonists in Eugene. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
 Noun. Source: Nugget. Definition: A lump of precious metal (as gold). Context: When smoking/purchasing marijuana. Social Source: Hackey-Sack Players on University of Oregon Campus. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

NUG. An endearing word: as, My dear nug; my dear love. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Crosswords: NUG

Specialty definitions using "NUG": Nugget of Gold. (references)

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: NUG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nug

14

nug jar

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Derivations: NUG

Derivations

Words beginning with "NUG": nugatory, nugget, nuggets, nuggety. (additional references)

Words ending with "NUG": snug. (additional references)

Words containing "NUG": fenugreek, fenugreeks, lanuginous, lanugo, lanugos, snugged, snugger, snuggeries, snuggery, snuggest, snuggies, snugging, snuggle, snuggled, snuggles, snuggling, snugly, snugness, snugnesses, snugs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: NUG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gnu, gun.

Words within the letters "g-n-u"

-1 letter: nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "g-n-u"
 

+1 letter: bung, dung, gaun, genu, gnus, guan, gunk, guns, hung, lung, pung, rung, snug, sung, tung.

 

+2 letters: begun, bungs, clung, cuing, dungs, dungy, flung, fungi, fungo, gaunt, genua, genus, gluon, grunt, guano, guans, gunks, gunky, gunny, lunge, lungi, lungs, mungo, negus, nudge, pungs, ruing, rungs, slung, snugs, stung, suing, swung, tungs, ungot, unpeg, unrig, using, wrung, young.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: NUG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 55 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..-    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01010101 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#85 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0055 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

485541

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.