Crossword clues for nugget
nugget
- Denver athlete
- Forty-niner's find
- McDonald's chicken bit
- Bit of wisdom or gold
- A solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
- Sourdough's treasure
- Valuable little piece
- Source of chicken, served up in little brown thing?
- Something small and precious
- Small lump of gold
- Fanatic collecting what's laid up in lump
- Lump of valuable metal
- Lump of gold ore
- Lump of precious metal
- Having brought up weapon, secure a lump of gold
- Draw back arm and pick up piece of chicken?
- Turning 24, receive a piece of wisdom
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nugget \Nug"get\, n. [Earlier niggot, prob. for nigot, an ingot. See Ingot.]
A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
Something of value, usually found among many other less valuable things; -- often used figuratively; as, a nugget of useful information in a sea of data.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, "lump of gold," probably from southwestern England dialectal nug "lump," of unknown origin [OED]. Another theory is that it is from a misdivision of an ingot. Transferred sense is from 1859.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A small, compact chunk or clump. 2 (context countable English) A tidbit of something valuable. 3 (context uncountable English) A type of boot polish. 4 (context countable English) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant. (non-gloss definition: Usually implies dankness.) 5 (context countable slang English) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot. 6 (context comptheory English) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
WordNet
n. a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
Wikipedia
Nugget may refer to:
Things
- Gold nugget, a piece of gold produced through mining and extraction
- Australian Gold Nugget, a gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint
- Chicken nugget, a lump of breaded or battered chicken
- Laister LP-15 Nugget, a single-seat glider aircraft
- Bede BD-17 Nugget, a single-seat homebuilt monoplane
- Nugget, a variety of hops
- The Nome Nugget, a weekly newspaper in Nome, Alaska
- North Bay Nugget, a daily newspaper in North Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Nugget Newspaper, a weekly newspaper in Sisters, Oregon
- The Nugget, a 2002 comedy film
- "Nugget", a song off the 1996 album Fashion Nugget by Cake
- Nugget Markets, an upscale California supermarket chain
- Carson Nugget, a hotel and casino in Carson City, Nevada
- Wendover Nugget, a hotel and casino in West Wendover, Nevada
- Nugget Falls, a waterfall in Alaska
- Nugget Point, New Zealand
- Nickname of H. C. Coombs, an Australian economist and public servant
- Nickname of Steve Davis (born 1957), snooker player
- Derisive nickname of Owen Hart (1965–1999), Canadian professional wrestler
Usage examples of "nugget".
Nell came out, nine-tenths of a ton of daintiness, and rumbled admonitorily at Nugget, who trailed her closely.
But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.
FIFTEEN minutes later, Duster Corbin and Cliff Marsland sauntered from the Nugget Club.
The gas is acid and hot and Judah screams as his skin splits, but he does not withdraw his hand, and he makes his scream into a chant, and he forces all the energies he has learnt and all the techniques he has stolen up from his innards and focuses them with the glass-pure nugget of hate and revenge he finds in him and channels and lets go with a cathexis purer and stronger than he has ever felt before, and thaumaturgic energies pour from him and make a golem.
A dozen blocks away, a twenty-story cartoon cowboy leered and beckoned, pointing down at the neon slab of the New Gold Nugget at his feet.
I see them in the corners of my eyes: the nuggets of reality hidden in the tawdry, skanky mosaic that is Legend.
I dropped a few hamster nuggets into his bowl and made some smoochy sounds.
Kukushkin was the real McCoy, Manny knew that he had gotten his hands on a gold nugget.
He never gave Lo Manto too much information, forcing the detective to plot his moves based on the small nuggets tossed his way.
I knew there must be layers of truth, hidden beneath tine surface of what the Ambassador had told me, just as their nuggets of quagma had been inexpertly hidden beneath the regolith of their hollowed-out moon.
You love it when a false-flag recruitment produces a twenty-four-karat nugget.
There was a loud semi-liquid smack, as the nugget of cheese blew up with speed and violence, spattering the inside of the belljar with crumbs and oil.
Somehow, that big subcritical nugget must have got back in, and the breeding-cans, which were pretty ripe by that time, must have been shoved in too close to it and to one another.
Some said mechs ate the slimy nuggets, while others thought it was a lubricant.
It had been done by the Piutes in Colorado, eighty or ninety years ago, with gold nuggets for bait.