nug

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Letters: 3

Definition of nug

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(West-Country)A lump; a block.

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noun

(West-Country)A lump; a block.
(slang)A piece of marijuana.

“A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose.”
(slang)A chicken nugget.

“A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.””
(alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”).

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Etymology

From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of…

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From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of uncertain origin. Probably from earlier *knug, *knugg, *knogg, related to dialectal Norwegian knugg (“knot, knob”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knuk- (“to ball up, mass together”), making it further related to English knock and knuckle.