- nugget
- Noun. 1. A one pound coin (one pound sterling).2. An idiot, fool.
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
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Nugget — may refer to: Gold nugget, a piece of gold produced through mining and extraction Chicken nugget, a lump of breaded or battered chicken Mosin Nagant, a family of bolt action military rifles North Bay Nugget, a daily newspaper Native metal, a… … Wikipedia
Nugget — bezeichnet: Nugget (Metallurgie), einen natürlich entstandenen Edelmetallklumpen Nugget (Münze), eine australische Goldmünze Nugget (Hopfen), eine Hopfensorte ein Modell des Ford Transit (als Wohnmobilversion) Siehe auch: Nuggets, Garage Rock… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Nugget — Nug get, n. [Earlier niggot, prob. for nigot, an ingot. See {Ingot}.] 1. A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold. [1913 Webster] 2. Something of value, usually found among many other less valuable things;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
nugget — [ nɶgɛt ] n. m. • 1994; mot angl. « pépite » ♦ Anglic. Croquette en forme de bâtonnet, panée et frite. Des nuggets de poulet. nugget [nœgɛt] n. m. ÉTYM. 1994; empr. à l angl. nugget « pépite ». ❖ ♦ Anglic. Croquette en forme de bâtonnet ou de… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Nugget — Nugget. См. Самородок. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
Nugget — (engl., spr. nögget), ein in der Erde gefundener Klumpen edlen Metalles, insbes. Gold … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Nugget — (engl., spr. nöggĕt), Goldklumpen … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
nugget — (n.) 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 … Etymology dictionary
nugget — [n] lump, solid piece; often of metal ore asset, bullion, chunk, clod, clump, gold, hunk, ingot, mass, plum, rock, treasure, wad*; concept 471 … New thesaurus
nugget — ► NOUN 1) a small lump of gold or other precious metal found ready formed in the earth. 2) a small but valuable fact. ORIGIN apparently from dialect nug «lump», of unknown origin … English terms dictionary
nugget — [nug′ət] n. [prob. dim. of E dial. nug, a lump] a lump; esp., a lump of native gold … English World dictionary
