chicken nugget

See also: Chicken Nugget, Chicken-Nugget, and Chickennugget

English

Chicken nuggets

Pronunciation

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Noun

chicken nugget (plural chicken nuggets)

1. A small portion of cooked boneless chicken meat in batter prepared by deep-frying.
   • 1986 May 8, The Canberra Times, Australian Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:

     Chicken nuggets, 6 for $ 1.49 are another popular snack item.

   • 2018, Kazerad, Katia: Tell a story, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), February 6, 2018

     The best you’d get is one of those animal-shaped chicken nuggets they give to kids.

2. (slang, uncommon) Female genitalia.

Synonyms

• (slang or childish) nug/nugg, nugger, nuggie/nuggy

Descendants

• → German: Chickennugget, Chicken-Nugget
• → Japanese: チキンナゲット / チキン・ナゲット (chikin nagetto)
• → Korean: 치킨너겟 (chikinneoget)
• → Marathi: चिकन नगेट (cikan nageṭ)

Translations

piece of chicken in batter

• Arabic: نَاجِت الدَّجَاج (nāgit ad-dajāj)

  Hijazi Arabic: نقت (nagit)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炸雞塊 / 炸鸡块 (zhájīkuài), 雞塊 / 鸡块 (zh) (jīkuài)

• Finnish: kananugetti (fi), kananugget
• French: nugget de poulet m
• Georgian: ქათმის ბრაწულა (katmis brac̣ula), ქათმის ნაგეთსი (katmis nagetsi) (colloquial)
• German: Chickennugget n
• Greek: κοτομπουκιά f (kotompoukiá)
• Japanese: チキンナゲット (chikin nagetto)
• Korean: 치킨너겟 (chikinneoget)
• Macedonian: пилешки залчиња n pl (pileški zalčinja)
• Marathi: चिकन नगेट m (cikan nageṭ)
• Polish: nuggets m
• Portuguese: nugget m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: на́ггетс (ru) m (nággets)
• Spanish: náguet, nóguet, núguet
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can