nugget

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈnʌɡət/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Uncertain, 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.

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