English Explanatory Dictionary

nut

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
  2. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
  3. 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.
  4. The head.
  5. A crazy person.
  6. An extreme enthusiast.
  7. An extravagantly fashionable young man.
  8. Senses related to male genitalia.
  9. The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
  10. A testicle, often used in the plural form.
  11. Semen, ejaculate, cum.
  12. Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
verb
  1. To gather nuts.
  2. To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  3. To orgasm; to ejaculate.
  4. To hit in the testicles.
  5. To defeat thoroughly.
noun
  1. Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
intj
  1. No.
name
  1. Initialism of National Union of Teachers.
name
  1. The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.

Pronunciation

nŭt /nʌt/ En-us-nut.ogg [nɐt] /nʊt/

Word forms

nut nuts nutting nutted Not Nunut Nenet Nuit

Etymology

From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.

Synonyms

nut coconut bonce noodle nutjob nut job nutcase nut case nutbag nutter wingnut basket case basket weaver crack crackpot crazy crazyhead dingbat eccentric fruit and nut case fruit cake fruit loop fruitloop head case kook loony loony tune lunatic madcap madhead mental case nut ball nutbar nutburger psycho psychoceramic schizo screwball space cadet space pilot unconventional wackadoo wackadoodle wacko whackjob whacko weirdo space case ball bollock nads butt Glasgow kiss Liverpool kiss loaf blow a nut bust a nut blow one's load blow one's wad breed

Related words

:Category:Nuts Nut (fruit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia do one's nut

Derived words

anacardium nut anchor nut areca nut astronut Bambara nut Barbados nut barrel nut connector bat nut bay nut becuiba nut beech nut beechnut beer nut be on someone's nuts betel nut betel nut beauty bitternut bladdernut bloodnut brazil nut Brazil nut effect breadnut bust a nut butterfly nut butternut candlenut cap nut cashew nut cashew-nut castellated nut castle nut check nut clagnut clearing nut clinch nut cob nut coconut coquilla nut coquito nut corn nut cream nut date-nut bread deez nuts dicknut difficult nut to crack djave nut dome nut donut do one's nut doughnut dough-nut dumbnut earnut earthnut econut employ a steam engine to crack a nut environut even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while feminut flare nut

Translations

Afrikaans: neut Ainu: ニヌㇺ Albanian: arrë Arabic: جَوْزَة Arabic: مُكَسَّرَات Armenian: ընկույզ Aromanian: nucã Azerbaijani: qoz Bashkir: сәтләүек Basque: intxaur Belarusian: арэ́х Bengali: বাদাম Bulgarian: я́дка f о́рех Bulgarian: фъстъ́к Bulgarian: ле́шник Burmese: အခွံမာသီး Buryat: һамар Carpathian Rusyn: о́рїх Catalan: nou Chamicuro: s̈hololoki Chechen: бӏар Chinese Mandarin: 堅果 /坚果 Chuvash: мӑйӑр East Circassian: дэ West Circassian: дае Cree: ᐹᑳᐣ Crimean Tatar: ceviz Crimean Tatar: qoz Czech: ořech Danish: nød Dutch: noot Esperanto: nukso Estonian: pähkel Evenki: няңта Faroese: nøt Finnish: pähkinä French: fruit sec French: noix French: fruit à coque North Frisian: naas West-Frisian: nút Friulian: nole Galician: noz Galician: froita seca Georgian: კაკალი Georgian: თხილი German: Nuss German: Nüßli Greek: ξηρός καρπός Greek: καρύδι
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