nugget A nugget is often something small, or it’s small and valuable. - A gold nugget might be very valuable.

- A person who prospects for gold sifts through sand and mud looking for nuggets of gold.

- A single gold nugget may be worth thousands of dollars. This makes prospecting lucrative, but it’s a difficult way to make money.
- When you go to a fast-food place, you might order chicken nuggets.
- Chicken nuggets look like large nuggets of gold.
- Readers of newspapers and magazines find nuggets of information.
- A nugget of information could have some kind of value.
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