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单词 nuttery
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nutteryn.

Brit. /ˈnʌt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈnədəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nut n.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < nut n.1 + -ery suffix.With sense 3 compare nut n.1 7a.
1. A place in which nut trees grow or are raised.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 344 If in thy nuttery, I should be found To beare no Nutmegs, Almonds, but a nut All Wormeate, or in barrenness abound.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 247 In another moment he has mounted the bank, and is in the midst of the nuttery.
1932 H. Nicolson Diary 20 Mar. (1966) 113 What would be good..would be to put the end of the main nuttery walk at the end of a main vista.
1995 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 36/5 A nuttery contains Kentish Cob, Frizzled Filbert and White Filbert hazelnuts.
2. A place in which nuts are stored. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for nuts
nuttery1881
1881 Graphic 15 Oct. 402/1 Busy rats, who carry off and also establish a nuttery.
1882 Cent. Mag. 25 300 They [sc. mice] generally have a well-filled granary or nuttery.
3. U.S. slang. A psychiatric hospital.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill
bedlam-house1525
dull-house1622
madhouse1649
bedlam1663
lunatic hospital1762
asylum1776
retreat1796
lunatic house1813
lunatic asylum1828
maison de santé1843
idiot asylum1848
rat house1854
bughouse1887
Colney Hatch1891
booby hatch1896
mental hospital1898
booby house1900
nut factory1900
nut collegec1906
nuthouse1906
monkey house1910
booby-hutch1914
nuttery1915
loony bin1919
nut hatch1928
silly house1930
bin1938
snake-pit1947
funny farm1950
1915 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 75 A cozy corner in the nuttery for yours.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route vi. 62 Should the sociotechnic social worker be convinced that you are not normal she will have you bound for a nuttery before sunset.
1995 Boston Herald (Nexis) 19 Feb. b37 ‘The King of Wrestling Rap’..will try to unravel Outpatient, out on a work-furlough program from the state nuttery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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