1 something that a person has said or written that is very true or very wise:
a nugget of information/truth
humorous What other astonishing nuggets of wisdom do you have for us?
2 a small, rough lump, esp. of gold:
a gold nugget
Besides melodrama and dime-store romance, the novel is studded with nuggets of politically instructive detail.
Eleven per cent of participants reported using the microwave for cooking chicken nuggets or strips.
The presentation invites the reader to dip in for nuggets of information as they follow their own trains of thought and as they require specific information.
Quantitative research counts discrete things that are already known; it uses a positivist notion of truth (nuggets of truth are dug out of the melting pot of life).
People's memories do not store such nuggets of information for ever.
I read, in the 175-page bundle, nuggets such as that to be found in paragraph 2.7.
In this large tome there are all sorts of little nuggets.
To obtain such nuggets of information they must attend a course, the fee for which is £140.
