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Nug

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lump; a block. West-Country
  2. 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. 3
    Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  4. 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.”"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.

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