nuggety
Britishadjective
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of or resembling a nugget
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informal (of a person) thickset; stocky
Example Sentences
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A nuggety, niggly back row with bags of energy, he had another superb game against Newcastle.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
And even if these formidable hurdles are overcome, City will then face Diego Simeone's nuggety Atletico Madrid or Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen in the last 16.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025
The effect is like a percussive, nuggety take on a Mendelssohn gondola song, complete with samples of Venetian church bells, a symbol for time and grief: The work floods with emotional power.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2016
In the event England were grateful for a nuggety half-century from Ian Bell, an important innings in a period of retrenchment after his trials in Arabia.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2012
I got a hay fever attack and sneezed ten or twenty times into a nuggety hanky.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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