Noun: nougat
| Singular | nougat |
| Plural | nougats |
Sample Sentences
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Cake Nogat: This nogat may be made in moulds, or square pieces. [1827, Guglielmo A. Jarrin, Italian Confectioner […] , 3rd edition, page 24:]
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[…](being twenty four and
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never screwed but in her
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soft nougat thighs)[…] [1999, Lyn Lifshin, “In Spite of His Dangling Pronoun”, in Before It's Light, page 29:]
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[…]it helps that Snickers offers the holy trinity of confection: nougat, caramel and peanuts[…] [2014 February 18, Sarah Begley, “The 13 Most Influential Candy Bars of All Time”, in Time:]
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When you make a nougat of large dimensions, put in the almonds a few at a time. [1846, Antoine B. Beauvilliers, A Complete System of French Domestic Cookery […] , volume VI, page 235:]
Nouns inflected like nougat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), ultimately from Latin nux (“nut”) + -atus (“-ate, forming adjectives and substantives having or resembling some thing or trait”). Compare Spanish nuégado. See: French Nouns '
nougat', Latin Nouns '
nux', Spanish Nouns '
nuégado'.