Definition of "nugger"
nugger1
noun
plural nuggers
An Egyptian sailing boat with a square sail that is tilted at an angle to the mast.
Quotations
Two other steamers accompanied us to beyond Berber, and four nuggers sailed with us, which were towed as far as Berber by the two steamers.
1885, Henry Brackenbury, quoting Hassein Ismain, The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and Its Return Down the Rapids, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 228
My orders were to endeavour to overtake the enemy, to co-operate with the gunboat Lotus in catching the large sailing nuggers, nine of which were known to be with the Arabs carrying their food supplies; […]
1925, Horace Smith-Dorrien, Memories of Forty-Eight Years’ Service, London: John Murray, […], pages 62–63
nugger2
noun
plural nuggers
Informal/humorous form of nugget.
Quotations
D’ywan a chicken nugger? […] Like these chicken nuggers, yeah? I fucking love ’em. I fucking love chicken nuggers. I eat ’em every night. I drive round this fucking ring road all night, I take my meetings in my car, I solve problems, I do business, I eat nuggers. McDonald’s chicken nuggers. McNuggers. They’re the best – The batter? No other nugger compares. Accept no substitutes. But maybe one day I’m thinking, hey, how do they make the nuggers?
2014, Alistair McDowall, Pomona, Methuen Drama, published 2020
'The only reason one should peel a nugger is for a doggo who gets the runny poops from not being able to tolerate the coating,' added a different user.
2019 June 18, Charlotte Karp, “Love at first bite! Besotted couple peel McDonald's chicken nuggets for each other before dipping them in sauce and eating them”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 22 May 2023