nut
noun
[ nʌt ]
• a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.
• "he was cracking nuts with his teeth"
• a small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing on to a bolt as a fastener.
• "fix the new pipe and tighten the nuts"
• a crazy or eccentric person.
• "she would have written me off as a time-wasting nut"
Similar:
madman/madwoman,
maniac,
lunatic,
eccentric,
loony,
nutcase,
nutjob,
cuckoo,
fruitcake,
head case,
basket case,
headbanger,
schizo,
crank,
crackpot,
oddball,
weirdo,
weirdie,
odd bod,
nutter,
radge,
screwball,
crazy,
kook,
nutso,
meshuggener,
wacko,
wack,
wing nut,
wackadoo,
wackadoodle,
dingbat,
• a person's head.
• "he's aiming to break a record by balancing a car on his nut"
Similar:
head,
skull,
cranium,
noodle,
noddle,
nob,
noggin,
dome,
bonce,
napper,
poll,
bean,
conk,
pate,
Costard,
crumpet,
• a man's testicles.
• the fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass.
• "the positioning allows the strings a straight path over the nut"
nut
verb
• butt (someone) with one's head.
• "I thought he was going to nut me in the face"
• gather nuts.
• "in autumn children would go nutting"
Origin:
Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss .
NUT
abbreviation
• (in the UK) National Union of Teachers.
