crack-nutn.adj.
A. n.
A nut-cracker. Now dialect.In the first quot. the meaning may be ‘nuts that one cracks’.
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1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 244 That sweet fool, Just wean'd from's bread & butter & the school; Cracknuts & Hobbihorse.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Cracknuts, nut-crackers.
B. adj.
That cracks nuts.
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1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 67 The little crack-nut squirrel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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