Nut

Quick meaning: Nut is a noun meaning (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

Meaning

(food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
2. (UK, Ireland, slang, dated) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
3. (anatomy) Senses related to male genitalia.
4. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
5. (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
6. (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
7. (slang) A crazy person.

Example Sentences

He was driving his car like a nut.

Which one of you nuts has got any guts?

a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut

Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.

Word Forms

• nuts
• nutting
• nutted

Synonyms for nut

Depending on context, synonyms include coconut, bonce, noodle, nutjob, nut job, nutcase.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fruitcake, egg, ballock, gonad, testicle, testis.

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