nut
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation, search Wikipedia has an article on: Nut A bowl of mixed nuts (hard-shelled seeds). Assorted nuts (fasteners with internal threads).
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English
Etymology
From Middle English nute < Old English hnutu. Cognate with Latin nux, Dutch noot, Old High German nuz (German Nuss), Old Norse hnot (Danish nød, Icelandic hneta, hnot, Swedish nöt) and West Frisian nút.
Pronunciation
Noun
nut (plural nuts)
- A hard-shelled seed.
- A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (slang) The head.
- 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
- 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- (vulgarity, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
- My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (music) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- An extreme enthusiast, such as a gun nut or car nut.
Synonyms
- (insane person): loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter
- (the head): bonce, noodle (See further synonyms under head)
- (a testicle): ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads
Related terms
terms related to the noun "nut"
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Verb
to nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted)
- (transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate (semen).
Anagrams
Dutch
Noun
nut n. (plural nutten, diminutive nutje, diminutive plural nutjes)
Derived terms
Norwegian
nut, the top to the leftEtymology
From Old Norse hnútr.
Noun
nut m.
- roundend, tall mountain top
Inflection
Inflection of nut| indefinite singular | definite singular | indefinite plural | definite plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bokmål m | nut | nuten | nuter | nutene |
| Nynorsk m | nut | nuten | nutar | nutane |
References
- “nut” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA: /nʌʔ/
Interjection
nut!
- (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.
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