Meanings
nug1
plural nugs · alternative nudge · alternative nugg · alternative nogg · alternative nog · alternative knog
nug2
plural nugs · alternative nugg
- slangA chicken nugget.
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.”
2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71Synonyms: nuggie
nug3
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”).
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA piece of marijuana.
nounA chicken nugget.
Origin
nug · noun
- Proto-Germanic*knuk-“to ball up, mass together”
- Englishnug
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.
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nug. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nug
“nug.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nug. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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