A proliferating trend is to refer to good things as "nuggets". I don't know about you, but I'm seeing this everywhere online: people are "hitting on nuggets", "picking out the nuggets", "looking for the nuggets" and on and on.
Etymonline indeed proves that the term "nugget" is intrinsically associated with gold, which should be promising. But at its root is the word nug, of dubious dialectical origin, and as lacking in form as the thing it describes: a lump.
Where's all this heading? Every single time someone uses the word nugget I think "...of crap". No kidding. I'm sure some young wag probably created this association for me in high school sometime, but regardless of its pathetic origins, I can't get away from it now.
To all you crazy metaphorically gold-panning technopreneurs out there, though, good luck with your nugget-finding! Hee hee. etc.
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