nuggets

English

Noun

nuggets

1. plural of nugget
2. (slang) Money.
   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     Bring it off in whatever way you like provided it shows nuggets […]

Interjection

nuggets

1. (colloquial) Synonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).
   • 2017, Mark Lowery, “Something Really, Really Terrible”, in Attack of the Woolly Jumper (Roman Garstang Disasters; 3), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN:

     […] I noticed a strange smell. Burning?! I looked down at my arms and chest. Oh nuggets! I was on fire.

   • 2023, Harvey Loza, Snow Day: A Series of Daily Choices, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:

     Looking through the items…Landon finds… […] a remote! But it’s for the wrong TV. “Oh, nuggets! Gotta keep looking, I guess.”

   • 2026, Emma Green, chapter 1, in The Not-So Great Escape, London: Usborne Publishing, →ISBN:

     “[…] Sometimes when we’ve experienced a big trauma, then…” Oh, nuggets! To Nic, everything was connected to grief. Could this get any worse?

French

Noun

nuggets

1. plural of nugget

Polish

nuggetsy

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from American English nuggets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɡɛts/
• Rhymes: -aɡɛts
• Syllabification: nu‧ggets

Noun

nuggets m animal

1. nugget, chicken nugget (small portion of cooked boneless chicken meat in batter prepared by deep-frying)

Declension

Declension of nuggets

	singular	plural
nominative	nuggets	nuggetsy
genitive	nuggetsa	nuggetsów
dative	nuggetsowi	nuggetsom
accusative	nuggets/nuggetsa	nuggetsy
instrumental	nuggetsem	nuggetsami
locative	nuggetsie	nuggetsach
vocative	nuggetsie	nuggetsy

Further reading

• nuggets in the Korpus Języka Polskiego PWN [PWN Corpus of the Polish Language]

Portuguese

Noun

nuggets

1. plural of nugget