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nuggy

nuggy is the alternative form of noogie.

nuggy is the alternative form of nuggie.

Meaning of noogie

Noun

noogie (plural noogies)

  1. (slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
    • give someone a noogie
    Synonyms:
    Dutch rub

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Meaning of nuggie

Noun

nuggie (plural nuggies)

  1. (childish, slang) A chicken nugget.
    • I was baking some chicken nuggets in the toaster oven. They smelled divine. […] Now they were popping edamame (another favorite) while I finished up making the nuggies and pasta.2010, Edward Ugel, I'm with Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, page 148
    Synonyms:
    nug

Forms of nuggy

pluralnuggies

Origin of nuggy

Clipping of nugget + -y.

Questions about nuggy

What is nuggy the alternative form of?
Nuggy is the alternative form of noogie.

Words near nuggy in the dictionary

  1. nuggetty
  2. nuggety
  3. nuggie
  4. nuggies
  5. nuggs
  6. nuggy
  7. nugifying
  8. nugs
  9. nugu
  10. nugudom
  11. Nugumiut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuggy (page history and authors); noogie (page history and authors); nuggie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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