Nug
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A lump; a block. West-Country
- 2 A piece of marijuana. slang
"A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose."
- 3 Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 4 A chicken nugget. slang
"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.”"
Example
More examples"It's Hanukkah weed. One nug lasted for eight days in the vaporizer."
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 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.
Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.
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