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Nuts

adjective

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.

Nut

noun

Usually large hard-shelled seed.

Egyptian goddess of the sky.

A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt.

Half the width of an em. Synonym: en.

A whimsically eccentric person. Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball.

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction. Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky. "A car nut" , "A bodybuilding freak" , "A news junkie"

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis.

verb

(past & past part. nutted; pres. part. nutting)

Gather nuts.

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"Nuts" Quotes from Famous Books

... settlement plentifully supplied in meat; chiefly venison of the black-tailed deer, with which the bottom-land abounds. Turkeys, too, in any quantity; these noble birds thriving in the congenial climate of Texas, with its nuts ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... Helen, who never would go back upon her twin, and who liked to have him around, "we'll make some nut candy. There's nuts—half a bushel of them. The boys must crack and pick the nuts and we'll make some walnut taffy—it will be lots nicer than ...

— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson

... small size, such as still grow in the Swiss forests, stones of the wild plum, seeds of the raspberry and blackberry, and beech-nuts, also occur in the mud, and ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... keep a good eye out for them this year," Shad warned them. "Last year wasn't good for huckleberries, apples or nuts, but this is going to be a regular jubilee harvest. Them bushes up there are hanging so full that you can put up quarts and quarts and quarts of them and send huckleberry pies to the heathen all winter ...

— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... be drawn into a conversation with Mr. Bullding," she declared. "I believe that he would bore me. Tell me, what are these bananas and nuts for?" ...

— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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