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nuggety

nuggety adjective: full of nuggets.

Adjective

nuggety (comparative more nuggety, superlative most nuggety)

  1. Full of nuggets.
    • Nuggety veins are characterized by localized, erratic, high-grades and coarse-free gold.2000, T.N. Michalakopoulos, G.N. Panagiotou, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2000, →ISBN, page 45
    • Mikli (1986) does not recommend plate pulverizers for the final pulverizing of nuggety gold ores, as the plate pulverizer does not significantly reduce the particle size of gold nuggets.2011, Peter Darling, SME Mining Engineering Handbook, →ISBN, page 189
  2. Having the characteristics of a nugget.
    • Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid.2010, Marco Maurizi, I Was a Teenage Critical Theorist, →ISBN, page 7
    • Plastic cases that held what I knew was a single nuggety sugar rabbit—the 1960s version of today's Peeps.2013, Elisa Morgan, The Beauty of Broken: My Story and Likely Yours Too, →ISBN, page 143
  3. Short, stocky, and powerful.
    • The nuggety seaman opposite grinned. “No need fer that at all, boyo!” he said, in a pleasant Welsh borders lilt.2001, Julian Stockwin, Kydd: A Novel, →ISBN, page 232
    • Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).2012, Adam Fraser, Write Now!The Third Space, →ISBN, page 133

Examples of nuggety in a sentence

  • Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.2016, John Bartel Weston, A Cryptic Odyssey, →ISBN, page 372:
  • She was a solid, nuggety little vessel, with a good pair of shoulders to her and a backbone as tough as a battleship's.2013, Colin Thiele, Blue Fin, →ISBN:
  • The little nuggety bloke moved towards Tim and said, “I'll take you.”2012, Steven McCarthy, Black Angels-Red Blood, →ISBN:

Forms of nuggety

comparativemore nuggety
superlativemost nuggety

Origin of nuggety

From nugget + -y.

Questions about nuggety

What does nuggety mean?
Nuggety means full of nuggets.
How do you use nuggety in a sentence?
Like the old miners, I camped in the nuggety gully.
What part of speech is nuggety?
Nuggety is an adjective.

Words near nuggety in the dictionary

  1. nuggets
  2. nuggets of truth
  3. nuggetted
  4. nuggetting
  5. nuggetty
  6. nuggety
  7. nuggie
  8. nuggies
  9. nuggs
  10. nuggy
  11. nugifying

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