nug
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A small nug (sense 1)
English
Etymology 1
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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Noun
nug (plural nugs)
References
- Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 309
Etymology 2
Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.
Alternative forms
Noun
nug (plural nugs)
- (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.
- (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.”
References
- Eric Partridge (2005) “nug”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 703.
Etymology 3
Noun
nug (uncountable)
- Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”)
Anagrams
Welsh
Verb
nug
- Nasal mutation of dug.
Mutation
| 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
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong *nɛŋᶜ (“to ask”); related to Proto-Mien *nu̯aiᶜ (“id”).
Pronunciation
Verb
nug
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 142.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 58; 164; 277.