nug

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English

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Etymology 1

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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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Pronunciation

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Noun

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nug (plural nugs)

  1. (West Country) lump; block

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Etymology 2

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A small nug (sense 1)

Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.

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Noun

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nug (plural nugs)

  1. (slang) A piece of marijuana.
    Synonym: bud
    • 2006, Jason King, The Cannabible 3,, page 25:
      A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose.
  2. (chiefly slang) A chicken nugget.
    Synonym: nuggie
    • 2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71:
      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.”

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Etymology 3

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Noun

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nug (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of noog (Guizotia abyssinica)

Anagrams

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Welsh

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Verb

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nug

  1. Nasal mutation of dug.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dug ddug nug unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

White Hmong

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hmong *nɛŋᶜ (to ask); related to Proto-Mien *nu̯aiᶜ (id).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nug

  1. to ask; to question

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 142.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 58; 164; 277.