Meaning

2 senses

  1. To find nuggets (of something valuable)

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang)To smear a male's genitals or anus with boot polish or similar substance against his will.

Examples

20 sentences

  1. I love chicken nuggets.

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  2. I have a gold nugget.

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  3. This is a gold nugget.

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  4. I ate chicken nuggets.

    ruЯ поел куриных наггетсов. — marafon

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  5. This project is a gold nugget.

    Цей проект - золотий самородок. — shanghainese

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Origin

Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to

Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.

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Forms

nuggets, nuggeting, nuggeted, nuggeted
Base formnugget · to nugget
3rd person singularnuggets
Present participlenuggeting
Past simplenuggeted
Past participlenuggeted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynugget
he, she, itnuggets

Past simpleLesson

all personsnuggeted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nuggeted
he, she, ithas nuggeted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nugget

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nudismnudistnuditynuggetsnuhnuisanceB2
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