different between nuc vs nug

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nju?k/
• Hyphenation: nuc
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: neuk, nuke

Noun

nuc (plural nucs)

1. (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
   • 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)

     I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]

Alternative forms

• nuke

Anagrams

• UNC, cun, unc

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nucu

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis.

Noun

nuc m (plural nuts)

1. walnut tree

Related terms

• nucã

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare p?r, prun, alun, m?r, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuk/

Noun

nuc m (plural nuci)

1. walnut (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• nuc?
• nucar
• nuc?oar?

Related terms

• nucet

References

• nuc in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Tapachultec

Noun

nuc

1. water

Usage notes

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.

References

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• nudge

Noun

nug (plural nugs)

1. (West Country) lump; block

References

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

Etymology 2

From nugget, from the sense above.

Pronunciation

Noun

nug (plural nugs)

1. (slang) A piece of marijuana.
   • 2006, Jason King, The Cannabible 3, p. 25:

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

2. (slang) A chicken nugget.
   • 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.”

Synonyms

• bud

References

• The Routledge dictionary of modern American slang and unconventional English, by Tom Dalzell, Eric Partridge, p. 703

Etymology 3

Noun

nug (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• GNU, Ngu, UNG, Ung, gnu, gun

Welsh

Verb

nug

1. Nasal mutation of dug.

Mutation

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu???/

Verb

nug

1. to ask; to question.

References

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