Definition of nugget
- nuggets of wisdom
- chicken nuggets
nuggets of beef in the chow mein
a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case
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First Known Use: 1851
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearatom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle;
abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth;
ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, iota, jot, lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit;
bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit);
fragment, part, portion, section;
: a solid lump of a valuable metal (such as gold)
: a small, usually round piece of food
: a piece of valuable information
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