nut /nut/

1. Popularly, any fruit with an edible seed in a hard shell
2. A hard dry indehiscent fruit formed from a syncarpous gynaeceum (botany)
3. Often the hazelnut, sometimes the walnut
4. The head (informal)
5. A crazy person (also nutˈcase; informal)
6. A person with an obsessive interest
7. A small, usu metal, hexagonal block with a hole in the middle, for screwing on the end of a bolt
8. A hard-headed person, one difficult to deal with, a tough
9. A young blood (also knut /nut/; slang)
10. An en (printing)
11. The ridge at the top of the fingerboard on a fiddle, etc (music)
12. The mechanism for tightening or slackening a bow (music)
13. A small lump of coal
14. A small, often ginger-flavoured biscuit or round cake
15. A coconut-shell drinking cup
16. (in pl) a source of joy (informal)
17. (in pl) the testicles (informal)

To look for and gather nuts

To butt with the head

nutāˈrian noun (rare)

A person who thinks nuts are the best kind of food

nutˈlet noun

1. A one-seeded portion of a fruit that divides as it matures, as in labiates
2. The stone of a drupe

nutˈlike adjective

nuts (informal) adjective

Crazy

Expressing defiance, contempt, disappointment, etc

nuttˈer noun

1. A crazy person (informal)
2. A person who gathers nuts
3. Nutbutter

nuttˈery noun

1. An area of nut-trees
2. A mental hospital (slang)

nuttˈily adverb

nuttˈiness noun

nuttˈing noun

The gathering of nuts

nuttˈy adjective

1. Containing many nuts
2. Having the flavour of nuts
3. Mentally unhinged (slang)
4. Foolishly amorous (slang)

nutˈ-brown adjective

Brown, like a ripe hazelnut

nutˈbutter noun

A butter-substitute or spread made from nuts

nutˈcracker noun

1. A bird (genus Nucifraga) of the crow family which feeds on nuts and pine seeds
2. (usu in pl) an instrument for cracking nuts

adjective

Like a pair of nutcrackers, eg toothless jaws

nutcracker man noun

A hominid whose bones were found in Tanzania in 1959, orig designated Zinjanthropus but later shown to be a species of Australopithecus

nut cutlet noun

A cutlet-shaped portion of a moist vegetable and nut mixture

nutˈgall noun

A nutlike gall, produced by a gall wasp, chiefly on the oak

nutˈ-grass noun

Any of various American sedges, esp one with edible tuberous roots

nutˈhatch noun

Any of various birds of the family Sittidae that hack at nuts and seek insects on the bark of trees like a creeper (also nutˈjobber and nutˈpecker)

nutˈ-hook noun

1. A stick with a hook for pulling down nut-bearing boughs
2. A bailiff
3. A thief who uses a hook

nutˈhouse noun (informal)

1. A mental hospital
2. A place where chaos and crazy behaviour reign

nutˈjob noun (slang)

A crazy person

nutjobber see nuthatch above.

nutˈmeal noun

Meal made from nuts

nut oil noun

An oil obtained from walnuts or other nuts

nutpecker see nuthatch above.

nut pine noun

The stone pine or other species with large edible seeds

nutˈshell noun

The hard covering of a nut

nutˈ-tree noun

Any tree bearing nuts, esp the hazel

nutˈ-weeˈvil noun

A weevil (genus Balaninus) whose larvae live on hazelnuts

nutˈwood noun

(the wood of) any nut-bearing tree, esp the walnut

nutˈ-wrench noun

An instrument for turning nuts on screws

a tough (or hard) nut to crack (informal)

1. A difficult problem
2. A formidable opponent

be nuts on or about (informal)

1. To be very fond of
2. To be fanatically enthusiastic about

do one's nut (informal)

To become extremely angry, to rage

in a nutshell

1. In a very small space
2. Briefly, concisely

not for nuts (informal)

Not very well, incompetently

nuts and bolts (informal)

The basic facts, the essential, practical details

off one's nut (informal)

Mentally unhinged, crazy

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