nuggety

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1. Full of nuggets.

   Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.

   2016, John Bartel Weston, A Cryptic Odyssey, →ISBN, page 372

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   Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold.

   2000, T.N. Michalakopoulos, G.N. Panagiotou, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2000, →ISBN, page 45

   Mikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets.

   2011, Peter Darling, SME Mining Engineering Handbook, →ISBN, page 189

   This type of nuggety gold is characteristic of deluvial and proluvial placers and appears to represent residual gold to which chemicl gold has been accreted; the whole nuggets in some cases have been extensively recrystallized.

   2012, Boyle, Gold: History and Genesis of Deposits, →ISBN, page 457

2. Having the characteristics of a nugget.

   Plastic cases that held what I knew was a single nuggety sugar rabbit—the 1960s version of today's Peeps.

   2013, Elisa Morgan, The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, →ISBN, page 143

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   Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid.

   2010, Marco Maurizi, I Was a Teenage Critical Theorist, →ISBN, page 7

   For the first time, too, he felt conscious of Blue Fin as a ship with a spirit of her own. She was a solid, nuggety little vessel, with a good pair of shoulders to her and a backbone as tough as a battleship's.

   2013, Colin Thiele, Blue Fin, →ISBN

3. Short, stocky, and powerful.

   The little nuggety bloke moved towards Tim and said, “I'll take you.”

   2012, Steven McCarthy, Black Angels-Red Blood, →ISBN

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   The nuggety seaman opposite grinned. “No need fer that at all, boyo!” he said, in a pleasant Welsh borders lilt.

   2001, Julian Stockwin, Kydd: A Novel, →ISBN, page 232

   Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).

   2012, Adam Fraser, Write Now!The Third Space, →ISBN, page 133