: a confection of nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
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The Brookie Topped with Snickers brings together a cookie and brownie taste and also contains chunks of real Snickers bars with peanuts, nougat and milk chocolate, drizzled with caramel.—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025 We were not provided a sample to try yet, but the official tasting notes describe sweet cinnamon toast, fruit nougat, and candied nuts on the nose.—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2025 Top with remaining 1/2 cup apples and 1/2 cup nougat bars.—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025 True, this area is so palpably pretty its image graces containers of chewy nougats and 1,000-piece brainteasers.—Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nougat
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Etymology
French, from Occitan, from Old Occitan nogat, from noga nut, from Vulgar Latin *nuca, from Latin nuc-, nux — more at nut
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