nuggetting

Verb

nugget (third-person singular simple present nuggets, present participle nuggeting or (rare) nuggetting, simple past and past participle nuggeted or (rare) nuggetted)

1. To find nuggets (of something valuable)
   • The other day, you are told, a fellow nuggetted ten or twenty pounds weight, and, of course, you see no reason why half a hundred weight might not be lying snugly ensconced awaiting the revelations of your pick.1852, James Bonwick, Notes of a Gold Digger: and Gold Digger's Guide, Melbourne: R. Connebee, page 8
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smear a male's genitals or anus with boot polish or similar substance against his will.
   • Among the complaints to Dart, “blackballing” or “nuggetting” was the most common form of sexual abuse carried out by recruits, and referred to a boy being forcibly held down “while boot polish, toothpaste or another substance was forcibly smeared on his genitals or anal area, sometimes with a hard...2014 June 17, Helen Davidson, “Blackballing and blanket beatings: decades of abuse at defence training school revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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