English Explanatory Dictionary

nutty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Containing nuts.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
  3. Barmy: eccentric, odd; crazy, mad, insane.
  4. Extravagantly fashionable.

Pronunciation

/ˈnʌti/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nutty.wav

Word forms

nutty nuttier nuttiest

Etymology

From nut + -y.

Synonyms

nuttish nutlike squirrelly nuts 5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug crazy as a pet coon cuckoo daffy daft demented deranged distraught disturbed doolally dotty eccentric fruit loops gaga hatstand harebrained insane kooky loon loco loony loony tunes loopy lunatic mad mental mentally ill meshigener meshugge moonsick nerts non compos mentis nonsane

Related words

coconutty coco-nutty nutter

Derived words

nuttily nuttiness nutty as a fruitcake nutty Irishman nutty slack

Translations

Finnish: pähkinäinen German: nussig Swedish: nötaktig Swedish: nötig
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