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Definition: Nugget |
NuggetNoun1. A solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nugget" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1863. (references) |
Note: Nugget \Nug"get\, noun. [Earlier niggot, probably for nigot, an ingot. See Ingot.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A large lump of placer gold or other metal. CF:heavy gold. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (pepita ). (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Nate the roadie. Definition: A very big bud of marajuana. Context: This word would be used to describe the size of a dried marajuana bud. Social Source: Drug culture band roadies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Unknown - might refer to the unrefined nature of such an individual, or from the initials "NG" for "new guy". Definition: A novice pilot, a naif. Context: Might be used by a seasoned pilot as a derogatory reference to a newbie. Social Source: Military Aviators. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget. |
Size | Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nugget |
| English words defined with "nugget": Prill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nugget": exponential model ♦ gaussian model ♦ linear model ♦ native elemen, nested variogram model, Now-a-days, Nugget of Gold ♦ spherical model. (references) |
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Screenplays | I did happen to pick up one little nugget of entertainment (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Nugget, you're worth your weight in gold (GoBots: War of the Rock Lords; writing credit: Jeff Segal) Indeed you do, Percy, except, of course, it's not really a nugget, it's more of a splat (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) That I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Nugget in the Rough (1918) Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916) The First Nugget (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | MAN OVERBOARD--Kayaking on the whitewater rapids of Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Whitewater rafting at Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Rafting through the whitewater rapids of Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Kayaker at Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Kayaking on the whitewater rapids of Nugget Falls on the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Nugget Point" by Michele Falzone Commentary: "Nugget Point - New Zealand." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Nugget" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Nugget" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.44% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nugget": Gold nugget ♦ nugget gold. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "nugget": gold-nugget. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "nugget"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | top (ball, bolt, cannon, falconet, field gun, gun, knob, nub, nubble, piece, soundly), grimë e çmuar, copëz (bit, cantlet, nodule, particle, Pat, scrap). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلة صلبة, كتلة ذهبية خام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | къс самородно злато, къс самороден метал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 矿块. (various references) | |
Czech | valoun (cobble, roller, rubble), hrudka zlata. (various references) | |
Farsi | قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), تکه فلز. (various references) | |
French | pépite. (various references) | |
German | klumpen (agglutination, chunk, chunkily, clod, clot, clots, clump, clumps, cob, dollop, go lumpy, gob, gobs, lump), Goldklumpen (nuggets). (various references) | |
Greek | όγκοσ χρυσού, όγκοσ άργυρου, βώλοσ χρυσού, βώλοσ άργυρου, βώλοσ από χρυσό, βώλοσ από άργυρο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גוש זהב גלמי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rög (button, clod, clot, lump, sod), csomó (batch, bed, bunch, bundle, clod, clot, clump, cluster, gnarl, hitch, kink, knag, knar, knob, knot, node, nodule, nub, parcel, Peck, pile, snag, snarl, snick, tie, tuft, wart), aranyrög (pick-up). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gumpalan emas, bongkah (clod). (various references) | |
Italian | pepita. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金塊 (gold bar, gold bullion), 金塊 (gold bar, gold bullion), ナイル鰐 (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, knapsack, knuckle, knuckle ball, knuckle four, knuckle part, NASA, NASA fashion, NASDAQ, NASTAR ski, national, national ad, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, national atlas, national bank, national brand, National Center of Trade Unions, national chain, national character, national consensus, national convention, national costume, national game, national holiday, national identity, national interest, National League, national minimum, national park, national prestige, national product, national project, national security, National Standard Race ski, National Trust, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, Nationalsozialist, NATO, Natrium lamp, natural, natural cheese, natural color, natural foods, natural grip, natural science, natural selection, natural turn, natural wave, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic, naturalization, naturalize, Nazi, Nazism, Nile crocodile, nine, no, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nothing, now, now-now-ism, nut, nuts, nylon, sodium, trendy, up-to-date). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナゲット , きんかい (adjacent seas, coastal waters, delighful, feelings, gold bar, gold bullion, inner thoughts, pleasant, thinking happily of). (various references) | |
Korean | 덩어리 (Chunk, loaf, Loaves, lump). (various references) | |
Manx | cramman (bulb, bump; control, button, handle of door, lump, pellet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uggetnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pepita (prill). (various references) | |
Romanian | pepitã. (various references) | |
Russian | самородок (prill). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grumen (clod, clump, dollop, knob, lob, lump, nub), grudva (clod, nub). (various references) | |
Spanish | pepita (pip, seed), pepítico (random), en forma de pepita (random). (various references) | |
Swedish | guldklimp. (various references) | |
Thai | เหรียญหนึ่งปอนด์, ก้อนโลหะมีค่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | külçe (bullion, chunk, ingot, pig), küçük değerli şey. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самородок, кусок (bit, bite, cake, piece, slab, wad), грудка (clod, clot, clump, gob, lump), малоросла тварина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vàng cục tự nhiên, con vật khoẻ chắc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nugget": nuggets, nuggety. (additional references) | |
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"Nugget" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bugget, huggath, huggett, muget, naget, nagget, Negret, Newgeat, Niget, Niggaz, nogget, nuage, nudget, Nugai, nugat, nuge, nugee, nugent, nuget, nugett, nugged, nuggert, nuggeted, Nuggett, nuggety, Nugud, nunge, nurge, Uget. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nugget" (pronounced nu"gut) |
| 3 | -g u t | agate, aggregate, argot, bigot, ergot, faggot, frigate, gigot, ingot, legate, maggot, spigot, surrogate, target. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: gent, genu, tune, tung. | |
-3 letters: egg, eng, gen, get, gnu, gun, gut, net, nut, teg, ten, tug, tun. | |
-4 letters: en, et, ne, nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: nuggets, nuggety. | |
+2 letters: guesting, snuggest, untagged. | |
+3 letters: budgeting, degusting, gesturing, grungiest, gusseting, guttering. | |
+4 letters: augmenting, englutting, gangbuster, gunfighter, gutterings, juggernaut, outbegging, regulating, suggesting, suggestion, toughening. | |
+5 letters: agglutinate, expurgating, gametangium, gangbusters, gauntleting, gigantesque, gunfighters, ingurgitate, juggernauts, outguessing, outweighing, suggestions, unweighting, upgathering. | |
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