Meanings
- colloquialSynonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).
[…] I noticed a strange smell. Burning?! I looked down at my arms and chest. Oh nuggets! I was on fire.
2017, Mark Lowery, “Something Really, Really Terrible”, in Attack of the Woolly Jumper (Roman Garstang Disasters; 3), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN2 more examples
Looking through the items…Landon finds… […] a remote! But it’s for the wrong TV. “Oh, nuggets! Gotta keep looking, I guess.”
2023, Harvey Loza, Snow Day: A Series of Daily Choices, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 14“[…] Sometimes when we’ve experienced a big trauma, then…” Oh, nuggets! To Nic, everything was connected to grief. Could this get any worse?
2026, Emma Green, chapter 1, in The Not-So Great Escape, London: Usborne Publishing, →ISBNSynonyms: rats
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionSynonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).
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