nug

From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of uncertain origin. Probably from earlier *knug, *knugg, *knogg, related to dialectal Norwegian knugg (“knot, knob”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knuk- (“to ball up, mass together”), making it further related to English knock and knuckle.

• nudge, nugg, nogg, nog, knog

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nug (plural nugs)

1. (West Country) lump; block

• Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 309

Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.

• nugg

nug (plural nugs)

1. (slang) A piece of marijuana.

   Synonym: bud

   • 2006, Jason King, The Cannabible 3,, page 25:

     A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose.

2. (chiefly slang) A chicken nugget.

   Synonym: nuggie

   • 2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71:

     A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.”

• Eric Partridge (2005) “nug”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 703.

nug (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”)

• Ung, gnu, gun, NGU, GNU, Gun, UNG, Ngu, NGu

nug

1. Nasal mutation of dug.

From Proto-Hmong *nɛŋᶜ (“to ask”); related to Proto-Mien *nu̯aiᶜ (“id”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /nu˧˩̤/

nug

1. to ask; to question

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 142.