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An etymological dictionary

Investigating the origins of American words, names, quotations and phrases. Over 41,000 entries.

“A chicken nugget is a meatball”

Chicken nuggets have been compared to meatballs. "nuggets are just like fried meatballs that were flattened, no?" was posted on Twitter by Jasmine Ang on July 27, 2011.…