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nuggers

nuggers is the plural of nugger.

Meaning of nugger

Noun (1)

nugger (plural nuggers)

  1. An Egyptian sailing boat with a square sail that is tilted at an angle to the mast.
    • Two other steamers accompanied us to beyond Berber, and four nuggers sailed with us, which were towed as far as Berber by the two steamers.1885, Henry Brackenbury, quoting Hassein Ismain, The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and Its Return Down the Rapids, Edinburgh; London...

Noun (2)

nugger (plural nuggers)

  1. (humorous, informal) A chicken nugget.
    • D’ywan a chicken nugger? […] Like these chicken nuggers, yeah? I fucking love ’em. I fucking love chicken nuggers. I eat ’em every night.2014, Alistair McDowall, Pomona, Methuen Drama, published 2020, →ISBN

Questions about nuggers

What is nuggers the plural of?
Nuggers is the plural of nugger.

Words near nuggers in the dictionary

  1. nuggar
  2. nuggars
  3. nuggbud
  4. nuggbuds
  5. nugger
  6. nuggers
  7. nugget
  8. nugget of truth
  9. nuggetlike
  10. nuggets
  11. nuggets of truth

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