nuggety

adj

1. Full of nuggets.

   “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.”

2. Having the characteristics of a nugget

   “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.”

   “For the first time, too, he felt conscious of Blue Fin as a ship with a spirit of her own. She was a solid, nuggety little vessel, with a good pair of shoulders to her and a backbone as tough as a battleship's.”

3. Short, stocky, and powerful.

   “The nuggety seaman opposite grinned. “No need fer that at all, boyo!” he said, in a pleasant Welsh borders lilt.”

   “Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).”

   “The little nuggety bloke moved towards Tim and said, “I'll take you.””