An individual bud of cannabis is often referred to as a ‘nug,’ a reference to a gold nugget.
Nug (Wiktionary)
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Nungali.
Symbol
nug
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nungali.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Nungali terms
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“
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