nuggets
n. countable B1 Intermediate US //ˈnəɡəts// UK //nˈʌɡɪts// nuggets
n. small, bite-sized pieces of food, usually chicken, that are fried or baked. It can also mean small, valuable pieces of information or gold.
n. small, solid lumps of a substance, particularly gold or food items like chicken. Often used metaphorically to describe brief but highly valuable pieces of information or wisdom.
The kids always order chicken nuggets for lunch.
The podcast was full of useful nuggets of advice for anyone starting a new business.
While the prospectors hoped to find large gold nuggets in the riverbed, they mostly discovered fine dust that required extensive filtering to collect.
Usage
Frequently appears in the partitive construction 'nuggets of' when referring to abstract concepts like information, wisdom, or truth.