nuttyadj.

Brit.

/ˈnʌti/, U.S.

/ˈnədi/

Forms: late Middle English notti, late Middle English notty, 1500s nuttie, 1600s 1800s– nutty.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nut n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < nut n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With isolated use in Middle English compare nappy adj.¹ (compare variant reading noppy in quot. a1450 at sense 1a); however, the forms notti , notty are unlikely to be transmission errors for nappy adj.¹ rather than examples of the present word, as a misreading of -pp- as -tt- seems improbable. With sense 3a compare earlier nuts adj. 1. With sense 3b compare later nuts adj. 2.

a. Resembling a nut or nuts in flavour, colour, etc.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective]

likingeOE

goodOE

lickerousc1275

deliciousa1325

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dainteousc1386

daintiful1393

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merrya1398

savourlyc1400

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savourousa1425

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lustyc1430

feelsomea1450

nuttya1450

seasonablea1475

delicativec1475

unctuous1495

well-tasteda1500

daintive1526

savoury1533

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taste-pleasinga1586

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neat1609

hungry1611

palate-pleasing1611

tasteful1611

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tastya1617

palatable1619

toothful1622

sipid1623

unsoured1626

famelic1631

tasteablea1641

piquant1645

sapid1646

saporousa1670

slape1671

palativea1682

flavorous1697

nice1709

well-flavoured1717

gusty1721

flavoury1727

fine-palated1735

unrepulsive1787

degustatory1824

zesty1826

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

flavoursome1853

unreasty1853

unrancida1855

relishy1864

toothy1864

flavoured1867

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

velvety1888

snappy1892

zippy1911

savoursome1922

delish1953

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [adjective]

nuttya1450

nuttish1893

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 110 (MED) Strong notty [c1460 Laud 416 noppy; a1500 Laud 557 notti] ale wol make ȝou to route.

1832 New-Eng. Mag. Sept. 226 It was at first extremely unpleasant to my taste, though Mr. Wirt is said to have pronounced it ‘nutty, nectareous’, &c.

1853 H. D. Wolff Pictures Spanish Life 38 Next comes orchata de chufas, white creamy nutty liquid, soothing the soul.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 211 Their flavour when taken from the bush is sweet, juicy, ‘nutty’.

1907 Daily Chron. 16 July 4/4 British cheese should be mild, nutty, and salvy.

1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin (1963) i. iii. 54 After a week or two of acorns, the bird has a nutty flavour, equal with a full-bodied burgundy.

1986 Cage & Aviary Birds 25 Oct. 7/5 The brown colouring should be of the same ‘nutty’ shading as that of the Redpoll.

†b. figurative. Pleasant, rich, full of zest; spicy or piquant in interest. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [adjective] > piquantly exciting

piquant1645

poignanta1657

French1682

flavorous1697

zested1769

zestful1797

pungent1850

spicy1853

zesty1853

juicy1883

nutty1894

sauced1894

colourful1905

zappy1969

1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 498 Supper, drink, and nutty mirth succeeded.

1849 H. Melville Redburn liv. 341 When..I have chanced..to light upon a fragment of this species of rope, I have ever taken, I know not what kind of strange, nutty delight in untwisting it slowly.

1894 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 4 475 It has, too, Mr. Blackmore's characteristic, leisurely, nutty humor in abundance.

1894 G. A. Sala London up to Date 329 The case, he incidentally adds, promises to be a ‘nutty’ one.

a. Of a tree, forest, etc.; producing nuts; abounding in nuts. Now rare.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > nut > [adjective] > having or resembling nuts

nutty1596

nuciferous1665

nucamentaceous1829

nucamentous1840

nutted1859

1596 G. Markham Poem of Poems vi. sig. D6^v Downe haue I gone into the nuttie walks, To viewe the vallyes riches, and her fruite.

1662–7 A. Cowley Of Plants in Wks. (1881) II. 276/1 The Hazel.., upon whose nutty Top A Squirrel sits.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 268 The nutty, briary hedgerows.

1989 C. Shields Orange Fish 14 This is a space carved out of the nutty wood of foreverness.

b. Studded with or containing nuts.

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1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William x. 197 He fortified himself with a course of Nutty Footballs [sc. sweets].

1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 3 Nov. 18 A moist, nutty cake made with carrots.

1999 Church Times 5 Nov. 11/1 The secrets of her entertaining 40 years ago—nutty cookies, congress tarts, melting moments and flapjacks.

†a. slang. Infatuated, fond; enamoured of a person or thing. Usually with on or upon. Cf. nuts adj. 1. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of persons) inclined to love

lovelyc1225

amorousa1393

lovesome1575

nutty1819

amatorious1893

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem. (1964) 255 A person who conceives a strong inclination for another of the opposite sex, is said to be quite nutty, or nuts upon him or her.

1819 London Guide 226 He was sweet, not to say nutty, upon the covess.

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 174 The Strand-lane and Lambeth men became quite nutty upon their brethren, and offered to back them at any odds.

1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 583 Being so nutty upon one another.

b. colloquial (originally U.S.). Deranged, not right in the head; crazy; mad, insane. Also in weakened sense: eccentric; wildly enthusiastic or passionate (about something or someone).

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

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brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

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beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

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red-wood?1507

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misminded1509

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straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

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informala1616

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March mada1625

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fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

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flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

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bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1892 W. Norr Stories Chinatown 7 The boys guyed him..and volunteered the information that he was either ‘nutty’ or ‘off his feed’.

1898 S. Crane in Cosmopolitan Dec. 169/1 ‘What's the matter with that feller?’ asked Martin. ‘Nutty,’ said the man.

1918 Stars & Stripes 19 Apr. 2/3 ‘Gosh,’ said the Indiana private, ‘that bread was as black as a derby.’ ‘You're nutty,’ said another. ‘It was blacker than that; didn't you ever see a brown derby?’

1963 Daily Mirror 6 Nov. 2/3 You have to be a real sour square not to love the nutty, noisy, happy, handsome Beatles.

1972 Washington Post 7 Apr. b6/2 I earnestly believe that every person has the right to be nutty on one subject. My subject is cigarette smoking. I've always hated it.

1986 Sunday Express Mag. 31 Aug. 47/1 The British are especially nutty about buses, particularly preserving them in private hands.

2001 Navy News Sept. 10/2 (advt.) Shaz, 34, bubbly, nutty, fun, blond, 5′5″.

c. Of an idea, action, or object: ludicrous, outlandish, perverse; (also, in weakened use) amusing, surprising, or peculiar. Cf. nuts adj. 2.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous

gamelyOE

jape-worthyc1374

foolisha1500

ridiculous1533

ludibrious1570

laughable1600

mockablea1616

laughworthy1616

ludicral1656

derisible1657

absurd1716

grotesque1747

tomfool1762

irrisible1767

ludicrous1782

deridable1804

saugrenu1876

screwy1887

derisive1896

josh1908

nutty1915

derisory1923

dingbat1935

bonkers1961

joky1964

1915 Z. Grey Redheaded Outfield 3 Lord!—he's about due for a nutty stunt.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §151/10 Foolish; nonsensical; ridiculous. (Applied to actions or ideas.)... Nutty, [etc.].

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 68 Yeah, of all de pipe dreams in dis dump, dey got de nuttiest!

1963 This Week 23 June 14/2 A ‘Tom Swiftly’ is a nutty kind of pun involving a double-meaning adverb.

1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 18/5 The dialogue is strewn with nutty non sequiturs (‘An American?’ ‘No, a New Yorker.’).

1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven vii. 39 It was..a pretty nutty thing to say. And a million miles away from the truth.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 May 26/5 Alan Daniel's pen-and-ink line drawings, which punctuate the text with visual whimsy, reinforce some of the nutty turns in the plot.

d. Chiefly Jazz. Of music, etc.: wild, exciting; gen. excellent, admirable. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of

Chicagoan1861

bad1897

hot1918

red-hot1918

soft1921

low-down1922

sweet1924

barrel-house1926

New Orleans1926

straight1926

crazy1927

dirty1927

hotcha1930

jungle1935

solid1935

traditional jazz1935

powerhouse1937

gutty1939

riffy1939

jivey1944

Kansas City1946

cool1948

West Coast1949

far-out1954

nutty1955

swinging1955

mainstream1957

Afro-Latin1958

1955 S. Allen Bop Fables 42 ‘Nutty,’ said the wolf.

1959 J. C. Holmes Horn 219 Man, that's a real nutty tie, I dig that tie.

1981 G. Tate in Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 77/3 These nutty metropolitan nursery rhymes either stalk or they rumble.

4. slang. Smart, spruce; attractive. Cf. nuttish adj. 1a. Now archaic.

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart

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sparkful1605

sparkish1657

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distinguished1748

nobby1788

dashing1801

vaudy1805

swell1810

distingué1813

dashy1822

nutty1823

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smart1860

sassy1861

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spiffing1872

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tony1877

swish1879

hep1899

toffy1901

hip1904

toppy1905

in1906

floozy1911

swank1913

jazz1917

ritzy1919

smooth1920

snappy1925

snazzy1931

groovy1937

what ho1937

gussy1940

criss1954

high camp1954

sprauncy1957

James Bondish1966

James Bond1967

schmick1972

designer1978

atas1993

as fine as fivepence-

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim

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pertc1330

cleanc1386

nicec1400

picked?c1425

dapperc1440

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trig1513

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tight1697

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snug1714

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jemmy1751

sprucy1774

smartc1778

natty1785

spry1806

perjink1808

soigné1821

nutty1823

toiletted1823

taut1829

spick and span1846

spicy1846

groomed1853

spiffy1853

well-groomed1865

bandboxy1870

perjinkity1880

spick-span1888

bandbox1916

tiddly1925

whip-smart1937

spit and polish1950

spit-and-polished1977

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xix. 112 Black-eyed Sal (his blowing), So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing.

1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 346 But my nuttiest blowen, one fine day,..To the beaks did her fancy man betray.

1839 G. W. M. Reynolds Pickwick Abroad xxvi. 224 And the beak wore his nuttiest wig.

1919 R. Firbank Valmouth viii. 143 Oh, she's a nutty girl; she's a bit of all right.

Compounds

C1.

nutty brown adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut

nut-browna1400

hazeled1548

nut-brown1575

hazel1580

nut-brown1586

chestnut-coloured1636

chestnut1656

chestnut-brown1656

castaneous1688

nutty brown1839

chestnutty1893

nutmeg1965

1839–40 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. v. 91 By many a highwayman many a draught Of nutty-brown ale at Saint Giles's was quaft.

1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 170 One of Truefitt's best nutty brown wigs.

1998 Western Daily Press (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. Highlights include..a rich, nutty brown Queen Anne figured walnut and herringbone banded chest on stand (£2,200—£2,800).

nutty-flavoured adj.

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1849 Morning Chron. 29 Nov. in P. E. Razzell & R. W. Wainwright Victorian Working Class (1973) 207 A capital nutty-flavoured beverage.

1992 Food Entertaining Summer 95/1 Top the cooked fish with a spoonful of fresh, green pesto and serve it with some nutty-flavoured wild rice.

nutty-looking adj.

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1828 Sporting Mag. 23 33 Master Tommy, who by the bye is a devilish nutty looking lad.

1978 D. Smith Cookery Course I Light brown, nutty-looking peas, which need careful soaking..and as much as 3 hours' cooking.

C2.

nutty slack n. coal slack in small lumps or nuts; also figurative (see quot. 1959).

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust

slackc1440

smith coal1466

smithy coal1482

coal dusta1529

panwood1531

smith's coal1578

kirving1599

culm1603

coom1611

small coal1643

smit1670

smut1686

slag1695

duff1724

duff coal1724

small1780

gum1790

stinking coal1803

cobbles1811

nubbling1825

stinkers1841

rubble1844

pea1855

nuts1857

nut coal1861

slap1865

burgee1867

smudge1883

waste1883

treble1901

coal smut1910

gumming1938

nutty slack1953

1953 New Yorker 31 Jan. 58/2 The low-grade small coal appetizingly known as ‘nutty slack’,..gives off far less appetizing fumes and dirt.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Stew, a not infrequent component of school dinners, is..in Croydon, ‘nutty slack’. After an inapt term coined by the Ministry of Fuel (1952) for a poor quality coal, obtainable off the ration. The nuts were few and far between.

1989 R. Hitchcock Fighting Cancer (BNC) My poor mother, who hated coal dust, had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘natives’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	nutty
释义	nuttyn. Brit. /ˈnʌti/, U.S. /ˈnədi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nutty adj. Etymology: < nutty adj. 1. colloquial (originally U.S.). depreciative. A mad or crazy person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §433/8 Insane person... Nut, nutty, nut-wit. 1975 Los Angeles Times 4 Dec. i. 28 [The] Teamsters Union President..denounced as ‘nutties’ and ‘would-be do-gooders’ dissident groups in the union. 1984 J. Didion Democracy (1985) ii. v. 89 I knew he was a nutty, but I thought he was a nutty strictly on his own case. 1994 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Nov. t3 Also subjects for those wide eyes..have been nutties in a state hospital. 2. British Navy slang. Chocolate; (gen.) sweets. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate jessamy-chocolate1697 milk chocolate1723 plain chocolate1737 chocolate drop1764 chocolate cream1851 chocolate1852 chocolate liqueur1864 chocolate button1865 choc1874 chocolate bar1875 choccy1885 langue de chat1897 black chocolate1902 soft centre1902 truffle1902 liqueur chocolate1904 bar1906 bark1910 chocolate coin1910 white chocolate1917 dark chocolate1930 Mars bar1932 Smarties1939 nutty1947 liqueur1965 1947 C. Causley in Adelphi July–Sept. 189 Don't send me a parcel at Christmas time Of socks and nutty and wine. 1964 J. Hale Grudge Fight xii. 192 There are one hundred and sixty-nine of them..with their pusser's green cases and their Christmas presents and their nutty and cigarette rations. 1977 Navy News Sept. 14/2 To settle an argument on Naafi policy relating to the profit margin on a bar of ‘nutty’ it seems somewhat ponderous to look up BR 31, Queen's Regulations for the Royal Navy. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nuttyadj. Brit. /ˈnʌti/, U.S. /ˈnədi/ Forms: late Middle English notti, late Middle English notty, 1500s nuttie, 1600s 1800s– nutty. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nut n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < nut n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With isolated use in Middle English compare nappy adj.¹ (compare variant reading noppy in quot. a1450 at sense 1a); however, the forms notti , notty are unlikely to be transmission errors for nappy adj.¹ rather than examples of the present word, as a misreading of -pp- as -tt- seems improbable. With sense 3a compare earlier nuts adj. 1. With sense 3b compare later nuts adj. 2. 1. a. Resembling a nut or nuts in flavour, colour, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective] likingeOE goodOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 daintya1382 dainteousc1386 daintiful1393 delicatea1398 merrya1398 savourlyc1400 liciousc1420 savourousa1425 daintethc1430 lustyc1430 feelsomea1450 nuttya1450 seasonablea1475 delicativec1475 unctuous1495 well-tasteda1500 daintive1526 savoury1533 exquisite1561 spicy1562 well-relished?1575 finger-licking1584 toothsome1584 taste-pleasinga1586 daint1590 relishsome1593 lickerish1595 tastesome1598 friand1599 tooth-tempting1603 relishing1605 well-relishing1608 neat1609 hungry1611 palate-pleasing1611 tasteful1611 palatea1617 tastya1617 palatable1619 toothful1622 sipid1623 unsoured1626 famelic1631 tasteablea1641 piquant1645 sapid1646 saporousa1670 slape1671 palativea1682 flavorous1697 nice1709 well-flavoured1717 gusty1721 flavoury1727 fine-palated1735 unrepulsive1787 degustatory1824 zesty1826 peckish1845 mouth-watering1847 flavoursome1853 unreasty1853 unrancida1855 relishy1864 toothy1864 flavoured1867 tasty-looking1867 hungrifying1886 velvety1888 snappy1892 zippy1911 savoursome1922 delish1953 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [adjective] nuttya1450 nuttish1893 a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 110 (MED) Strong notty [c1460 Laud 416 noppy; a1500 Laud 557 notti] ale wol make ȝou to route. 1832 New-Eng. Mag. Sept. 226 It was at first extremely unpleasant to my taste, though Mr. Wirt is said to have pronounced it ‘nutty, nectareous’, &c. 1853 H. D. Wolff Pictures Spanish Life 38 Next comes orchata de chufas, white creamy nutty liquid, soothing the soul. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 211 Their flavour when taken from the bush is sweet, juicy, ‘nutty’. 1907 Daily Chron. 16 July 4/4 British cheese should be mild, nutty, and salvy. 1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin (1963) i. iii. 54 After a week or two of acorns, the bird has a nutty flavour, equal with a full-bodied burgundy. 1986 Cage & Aviary Birds 25 Oct. 7/5 The brown colouring should be of the same ‘nutty’ shading as that of the Redpoll. †b. figurative. Pleasant, rich, full of zest; spicy or piquant in interest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [adjective] > piquantly exciting piquant1645 poignanta1657 French1682 flavorous1697 zested1769 zestful1797 pungent1850 spicy1853 zesty1853 juicy1883 nutty1894 sauced1894 colourful1905 zappy1969 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 498 Supper, drink, and nutty mirth succeeded. 1849 H. Melville Redburn liv. 341 When..I have chanced..to light upon a fragment of this species of rope, I have ever taken, I know not what kind of strange, nutty delight in untwisting it slowly. 1894 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 4 475 It has, too, Mr. Blackmore's characteristic, leisurely, nutty humor in abundance. 1894 G. A. Sala London up to Date 329 The case, he incidentally adds, promises to be a ‘nutty’ one. 2. a. Of a tree, forest, etc.; producing nuts; abounding in nuts. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > nut > [adjective] > having or resembling nuts nutty1596 nuciferous1665 nucamentaceous1829 nucamentous1840 nutted1859 1596 G. Markham Poem of Poems vi. sig. D6^v Downe haue I gone into the nuttie walks, To viewe the vallyes riches, and her fruite. 1662–7 A. Cowley Of Plants in Wks. (1881) II. 276/1 The Hazel.., upon whose nutty Top A Squirrel sits. 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 268 The nutty, briary hedgerows. 1989 C. Shields Orange Fish 14 This is a space carved out of the nutty wood of foreverness. b. Studded with or containing nuts. ΚΠ 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William x. 197 He fortified himself with a course of Nutty Footballs [sc. sweets]. 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 3 Nov. 18 A moist, nutty cake made with carrots. 1999 Church Times 5 Nov. 11/1 The secrets of her entertaining 40 years ago—nutty cookies, congress tarts, melting moments and flapjacks. 3. †a. slang. Infatuated, fond; enamoured of a person or thing. Usually with on or upon. Cf. nuts adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of persons) inclined to love lovelyc1225 amorousa1393 lovesome1575 nutty1819 amatorious1893 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem. (1964) 255 A person who conceives a strong inclination for another of the opposite sex, is said to be quite nutty, or nuts upon him or her. 1819 London Guide 226 He was sweet, not to say nutty, upon the covess. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 174 The Strand-lane and Lambeth men became quite nutty upon their brethren, and offered to back them at any odds. 1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 583 Being so nutty upon one another. b. colloquial (originally U.S.). Deranged, not right in the head; crazy; mad, insane. Also in weakened sense: eccentric; wildly enthusiastic or passionate (about something or someone). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1892 W. Norr Stories Chinatown 7 The boys guyed him..and volunteered the information that he was either ‘nutty’ or ‘off his feed’. 1898 S. Crane in Cosmopolitan Dec. 169/1 ‘What's the matter with that feller?’ asked Martin. ‘Nutty,’ said the man. 1918 Stars & Stripes 19 Apr. 2/3 ‘Gosh,’ said the Indiana private, ‘that bread was as black as a derby.’ ‘You're nutty,’ said another. ‘It was blacker than that; didn't you ever see a brown derby?’ 1963 Daily Mirror 6 Nov. 2/3 You have to be a real sour square not to love the nutty, noisy, happy, handsome Beatles. 1972 Washington Post 7 Apr. b6/2 I earnestly believe that every person has the right to be nutty on one subject. My subject is cigarette smoking. I've always hated it. 1986 Sunday Express Mag. 31 Aug. 47/1 The British are especially nutty about buses, particularly preserving them in private hands. 2001 Navy News Sept. 10/2 (advt.) Shaz, 34, bubbly, nutty, fun, blond, 5′5″. c. Of an idea, action, or object: ludicrous, outlandish, perverse; (also, in weakened use) amusing, surprising, or peculiar. Cf. nuts adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous gamelyOE jape-worthyc1374 foolisha1500 ridiculous1533 ludibrious1570 laughable1600 mockablea1616 laughworthy1616 ludicral1656 derisible1657 absurd1716 grotesque1747 tomfool1762 irrisible1767 ludicrous1782 deridable1804 saugrenu1876 screwy1887 derisive1896 josh1908 nutty1915 derisory1923 dingbat1935 bonkers1961 joky1964 1915 Z. Grey Redheaded Outfield 3 Lord!—he's about due for a nutty stunt. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §151/10 Foolish; nonsensical; ridiculous. (Applied to actions or ideas.)... Nutty, [etc.]. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 68 Yeah, of all de pipe dreams in dis dump, dey got de nuttiest! 1963 This Week 23 June 14/2 A ‘Tom Swiftly’ is a nutty kind of pun involving a double-meaning adverb. 1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 18/5 The dialogue is strewn with nutty non sequiturs (‘An American?’ ‘No, a New Yorker.’). 1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven vii. 39 It was..a pretty nutty thing to say. And a million miles away from the truth. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 May 26/5 Alan Daniel's pen-and-ink line drawings, which punctuate the text with visual whimsy, reinforce some of the nutty turns in the plot. d. Chiefly Jazz. Of music, etc.: wild, exciting; gen. excellent, admirable. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of Chicagoan1861 bad1897 hot1918 red-hot1918 soft1921 low-down1922 sweet1924 barrel-house1926 New Orleans1926 straight1926 crazy1927 dirty1927 hotcha1930 jungle1935 solid1935 traditional jazz1935 powerhouse1937 gutty1939 riffy1939 jivey1944 Kansas City1946 cool1948 West Coast1949 far-out1954 nutty1955 swinging1955 mainstream1957 Afro-Latin1958 1955 S. Allen Bop Fables 42 ‘Nutty,’ said the wolf. 1959 J. C. Holmes Horn 219 Man, that's a real nutty tie, I dig that tie. 1981 G. Tate in Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 77/3 These nutty metropolitan nursery rhymes either stalk or they rumble. 4. slang. Smart, spruce; attractive. Cf. nuttish adj. 1a. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim netc1330 pertc1330 cleanc1386 nicec1400 picked?c1425 dapperc1440 feata1471 gim1513 trig1513 well-trimmedc1513 trick1533 smirk1534 tricksy1552 neat1559 netty1573 deft1579 primpc1590 briska1593 smug1598 spruce1598 sprink1602 terse1602 compt1632 nitle1673 sprig1675 snod1691 tight1697 smugged1706 snug1714 pensy1718 fitty1746 jemmy1751 sprucy1774 smartc1778 natty1785 spry1806 perjink1808 soigné1821 nutty1823 toiletted1823 taut1829 spick and span1846 spicy1846 groomed1853 spiffy1853 well-groomed1865 bandboxy1870 perjinkity1880 spick-span1888 bandbox1916 tiddly1925 whip-smart1937 spit and polish1950 spit-and-polished1977 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xix. 112 Black-eyed Sal (his blowing), So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 346 But my nuttiest blowen, one fine day,..To the beaks did her fancy man betray. 1839 G. W. M. Reynolds Pickwick Abroad xxvi. 224 And the beak wore his nuttiest wig. 1919 R. Firbank Valmouth viii. 143 Oh, she's a nutty girl; she's a bit of all right. Compounds C1. nutty brown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut nut-browna1400 hazeled1548 nut-brown1575 hazel1580 nut-brown1586 chestnut-coloured1636 chestnut1656 chestnut-brown1656 castaneous1688 nutty brown1839 chestnutty1893 nutmeg1965 1839–40 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. v. 91 By many a highwayman many a draught Of nutty-brown ale at Saint Giles's was quaft. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 170 One of Truefitt's best nutty brown wigs. 1998 Western Daily Press (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. Highlights include..a rich, nutty brown Queen Anne figured walnut and herringbone banded chest on stand (£2,200—£2,800). nutty-flavoured adj. ΚΠ 1849 Morning Chron. 29 Nov. in P. E. Razzell & R. W. Wainwright Victorian Working Class (1973) 207 A capital nutty-flavoured beverage. 1992 Food Entertaining Summer 95/1 Top the cooked fish with a spoonful of fresh, green pesto and serve it with some nutty-flavoured wild rice. nutty-looking adj. ΚΠ 1828 Sporting Mag. 23 33 Master Tommy, who by the bye is a devilish nutty looking lad. 1978 D. Smith Cookery Course I Light brown, nutty-looking peas, which need careful soaking..and as much as 3 hours' cooking. C2. nutty slack n. coal slack in small lumps or nuts; also figurative (see quot. 1959). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust slackc1440 smith coal1466 smithy coal1482 coal dusta1529 panwood1531 smith's coal1578 kirving1599 culm1603 coom1611 small coal1643 smit1670 smut1686 slag1695 duff1724 duff coal1724 small1780 gum1790 stinking coal1803 cobbles1811 nubbling1825 stinkers1841 rubble1844 pea1855 nuts1857 nut coal1861 slap1865 burgee1867 smudge1883 waste1883 treble1901 coal smut1910 gumming1938 nutty slack1953 1953 New Yorker 31 Jan. 58/2 The low-grade small coal appetizingly known as ‘nutty slack’,..gives off far less appetizing fumes and dirt. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Stew, a not infrequent component of school dinners, is..in Croydon, ‘nutty slack’. After an inapt term coined by the Ministry of Fuel (1952) for a poor quality coal, obtainable off the ration. The nuts were few and far between. 1989 R. Hitchcock Fighting Cancer (BNC) My poor mother, who hated coal dust, had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘natives’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1942adj.a1450
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