nuggetnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈnʌɡ.ɪt/us/ˈnʌɡ.ɪt/nugget noun [ C ] (SMALL PIECE)
a small roughly shaped piece, especially of gold
a small piece of chicken or fish that has been covered in breadcrumbs and fried:
She won't eat anything except chicken nuggets and pizza.
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Geology: mineralogy
- concentrate
- crude
- crystal
- crystalline
- deposit
- fool's gold
- gold dust
- golden
- graphite
- like gold dust idiom
- magnesium
- mica
- mineral
- mineralogist
- mineralogy
- pyrite
- seam
- silicate
- silicon
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Cuts of meat
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nugget noun [ C ] (INFORMATION)
something that a person has said or written that is very true or very wise:
a nugget of information/truth
humorous What other astonishing nuggets of wisdom do you have for us?
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Linguistics: sentences & expressions
- anagram
- catchphrase
- cliché
- cliché-ridden
- coin
- compound sentence
- concessive clause
- declarative sentence
- expression
- figure of speech
- fronting
- idiom
- mission statement
- phrasing
- proverb
- refrain
- relative clause
- simple sentence
- tail
- war cry
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