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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
originUncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0