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1
a small piece or quantity of food
- nuggets of beef in the chow mein
- fried chicken nuggets
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3
a very small piece
- a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case
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- ace,
- dab,
- dash,
- driblet,
- drop,
- fraction,
- haet
- [chiefly Scottish],
- halfpenny,
- ha'penny,
- iota,
- jot,
- kenning
- [chiefly Scottish],
- lick,
- minim,
- mite,
- modicum,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- pinch,
- shred,
- smatter,
- smidgen
- (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
- spot,
- strain,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- taste,
- touch,
- trace,
- whisper,
- whit
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The first known use of nugget was in 1851
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