nutcasen.
/ˈnʌtkeɪs/, U.S. /ˈnətˌkeɪs/ colloquial.
A crazy, mad, or mentally disturbed person; an eccentric. Also (occasionally): a violent person.
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1959 Punch 21 Oct. 337/2 I couldn't get anyone to talk about it openly. The way they clammed up you'd have thought I was a spy or a nut-case.
1965 A. Prior Interrogators iii. 28 He knew the nut-cases, the convicted sexual offenders.
1973 E. Boyd & R. Parkes Dark Number v. 57 They were all shams... She was a nutcase really.
1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own iii. viii. 236 And that nutcase son of yours... We've heard rumours. We'd be cutting our own throats having him any longer in our midst.
1998 D. Danvers Circuit of Heaven 219 This guy who calls himself Gabriel. A real nutcase. He's been spying on us.
2002 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 8 May We have a very good understanding. I haven't got this jealous nutcase of a boyfriend.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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