nuts
adjective
[ nʌts ]
• mad.
• "the way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts"
Similar:
mad,
insane,
mentally ill,
certifiable,
deranged,
demented,
of unsound mind,
out of one's mind,
not in one's right mind,
sick in the head,
not together,
crazy,
crazed,
lunatic,
non compos mentis,
unbalanced,
unhinged,
unstable,
disturbed,
distracted,
stark mad,
manic,
frenzied,
raving,
distraught,
frantic,
hysterical,
delirious,
psychotic,
psychopathic,
mad as a hatter,
mad as a March hare,
foaming at the mouth,
sectionable,
mental,
off one's head,
out of one's head,
off one's nut,
nutty,
nutty as a fruitcake,
off one's rocker,
not (quite) right in the head,
round the bend,
stark raving mad,
raving mad,
bats,
bonkers,
cuckoo,
cracked,
loopy,
loony,
bananas,
loco,
dippy,
screwy,
schizoid,
touched,
gaga,
off the wall,
not all there,
not right upstairs,
barmy,
crackers,
barking,
barking mad,
stark staring mad,
batty,
dotty,
round the twist,
off one's trolley,
as daft as a brush,
not the full shilling,
up the pole,
away with the fairies,
buggy,
nutsy,
nutso,
out of one's tree,
meshuga,
squirrelly,
wacko,
bushed,
yarra,
porangi,
have a screw loose,
have bats in the/one's belfry,
nuts
exclamation
• an expression of contempt or derision.
• "keep up the good work, and nuts to everyone who doesn't like it"
nut
noun
• 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 .
