nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭt
ipa: /nʌt/
ipa: [nɐt]
ipa: /nʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: nuts
Etymology: From Middle English nute, note, 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.
Senses: examples: text: There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
topics: biology
botany
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
qualifier: strictly
examples: text: As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
ref: 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing, page 95:
hypernyms: fastener
hardware
qualifier: hardware
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
ref: 1891, James Main Dixon, Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, page 226:
text: Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
synonyms: coconut
bonce
noodle
glosses: The head.
examples: text: He was driving his car like a nut.
text: Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
ref: 1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):
synonyms: word: nutjob
word: nut job
word: nutcase
word: nut case
word: nutbag
word: nutter
word: wingnut
word: basket case
word: basket weaver
word: crack
word: crackpot
word: crazy
word: crazyhead
word: dingbat
word: eccentric
word: fruit and nut case
word: fruit cake
word: fruit loop
word: fruitloop
word: head case
word: kook
word: loony
word: loony tune
word: lunatic
word: madcap
word: madhead
word: mental case
word: nut
word: nut ball
word: nutbar
word: nutburger
word: nutcase
word: nutjob
word: nutter
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: schizo
word: screwball
word: space cadet
word: space pilot
word: unconventional
word: wackadoo
word: wackadoodle
word: wacko
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: weirdo
word: wingnut
word: space case
glosses: A crazy person.
examples: text: a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
glosses: An extreme enthusiast.
examples: text: ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….
ref: 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323
glosses: An extravagantly fashionable young man.
examples: text: [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
ref: 1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54:
text: GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
ref: 1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:
text: In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.
ref: 1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest:
text: In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, or nut of the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease.
ref: 1965, Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers, page 23:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses related to male genitalia.
The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
examples: text: I kicked him in the nuts.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses related to male genitalia.
A testicle, often used in the plural form.
synonyms: word: ball
word: bollock
word: nads
examples: text: As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
ref: 2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses related to male genitalia.
Semen, ejaculate, cum.
examples: text: He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
text: […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]
ref: 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses related to male genitalia.
Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
examples: text: $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.
ref: 2025 August 6, “Got a Nut”, in South Park, season 27, episode 2, spoken by Mr. Mackey:
glosses: Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
examples: text: My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 11:
glosses: The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
glosses: A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
topics: arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
glosses: On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
examples: text: When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
ref: 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing, page 88:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
examples: text: nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The tumbler of a gunlock.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
examples: text: dough-nut
text: ginger nut
qualifier: archaic except in combination with a modifier
glosses: A small rounded cake or cookie.
Synonyms: word: nut
Hypernyms: word: food
Hyponyms: word: Spanish chestnut
word: acorn
word: almond
word: beer nut
word: betel nut
word: brazil nut
word: cashew
word: cashew nut
word: chestnut
word: cobnut
word: coconut
word: conker
word: earthnut
word: goober
word: gooranut
word: groundnut
word: hazel
word: hazelnut
word: macadamia
word: macadamia nut
word: peanut
word: pecan
word: pine nut
word: pistachio
word: tagua nut
word: walnut
word: blanched almond
word: marron glacé
Derived terms: word: anacardium nut
word: anchor nut
word: areca nut
word: astronut
word: Bambara nut
word: Barbados nut
word: barrel nut connector
word: bat nut
word: bay nut
word: becuiba nut
word: beech nut
word: beechnut
word: beer nut
word: be on someone's nuts
word: betel nut
word: betel nut beauty
word: bitternut
word: bladdernut
word: bloodnut
word: brazil nut
word: Brazil nut
word: Brazil nut effect
word: breadnut
word: bust a nut
word: butterfly nut
word: butternut
word: candlenut
word: cap nut
word: cashew nut
word: cashew-nut
word: castellated nut
word: castle nut
word: check nut
word: clagnut
word: clearing nut
word: clinch nut
word: cob nut
word: coconut
word: coquilla nut
word: coquito nut
word: cream nut
word: date-nut bread
word: deez nuts
word: dicknut
word: difficult nut to crack
word: djave nut
word: dome nut
word: donut
word: do one's nut
word: doughnut
word: dough-nut
word: dumbnut
word: earnut
word: earthnut
word: econut
word: employ a steam engine to crack a nut
word: environut
word: even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
english: blend
translation: blend
word: feminut
word: flare nut
word: flare nut wrench
word: flare-nut wrench
word: Fluffernutter
word: fluffernutter
word: soup to nuts
word: fucknut
word: fuzznut
word: gallnut
word: gall-nut
word: get off the nut
word: gingerbread nut
word: ginger nut
word: gingernut
word: ginkgo nut
word: give one's left nut
word: goat nut
word: groundnut
word: grugru nut
word: gumnut
word: hard nut to crack
word: have the world by the nuts
word: hazel nut
word: hazelnut
word: heartnut
word: hickory nut
word: hognut
word: I'm allergic to nuts
word: ivory nut
word: Jesuits' nuts
word: Jesus nut
word: kola nut
word: land of fruits and nuts
word: let one's nuts hang
word: Levant nut
word: locknut
word: lotus nut
word: love nut
word: lucky nut
word: lug nut
word: macadamia nut
word: Madeira nut
word: Malabar nut
word: marking nut
word: marking-nut
word: marking nut tree
word: marking-nut tree
word: micronut
word: midshipman's nuts
word: mixed nuts
word: monkeynut
word: monkey nut
word: mummy nut
word: mutt's nuts
word: neatball
word: nicker nut
word: nutarian
word: nutbag
word: nut ball
word: nutball
word: nutballs
word: nutbar
word: nut bar
word: nut-bar
word: nutbeam
word: nut behind the bolt
word: nutbowl
word: nut bread
word: nutbreaker
word: nut-brown
word: nut-brown butter
word: nutburger
word: Nutbush
word: nut butter
word: nutcake
word: nutcase
word: nut case
word: nut clam
word: nutcrack
word: nutcracker
word: nut-cut
word: nut cutlet
word: nut cutting
word: nut-cutting time
word: nut dash
word: nutdriver
word: nut driver
word: Nutella
word: nutfall
word: nutfarm
word: nut flush
word: nut full house
word: nutgall
word: nutgrass
word: nut-grass
word: nuthack
word: nuthacker
word: nuthatch
word: nuthead
word: nut head
word: nut-head
word: nuthook
word: nut-hook
word: nut house
word: nuthouse
word: nuthugger
word: nut huggers
word: nut job
word: nutjobber
word: nutjuice
word: nutless
word: nutlet
word: nut lettuce
word: nutlike
word: nutling
word: nut loaf
word: nutly
word: nutmeal
word: nutmeat
word: nutmeg
word: nut milk
word: nut out
word: nutpecker
word: nutpick
word: nutpicker
word: nutpicking
word: nut pine
word: nut quad
word: nutrider
word: nut roast
word: nut roll
word: nutrush
word: nutsack
word: nuts and bolts
word: nutsedge
word: nutsetter
word: nutshell
word: nutshot
word: nuts to butts
word: nut straight
word: nutsucker
word: nutter
word: nuttery
word: nuttish
word: nut tree
word: nutty
word: nut up
word: nut weevil
word: nutwood
word: nut wrench
word: off one's nut
word: off one's nuts
word: off the nut
word: oilnut
word: on the nut
word: palm nut
word: paradise nut
word: Pará nut
word: peanut
word: peppernut
word: pepper nut
word: physic nut
word: pignut
word: pili nut
word: pilot nut
word: pine nut
word: pine nut syndrome
word: pistachio nut
word: poison-nut
word: poison nut
word: post nut clarity
word: post-nut clarity
word: pre-nut
word: purging nut
word: quandong nut
word: Queensland nut
word: reefer's nut
word: Ringnut
word: rush nut
word: Saint Anthony's nut
word: seednut
word: seed-nut
word: Seychelles nut
word: sleeve nut
word: soapnut
word: soup-to-nuts
word: soy nut
word: spicenut
word: stone nut
word: sweet as a nut
word: tagua nut
word: taqua nut
word: the nut does not fall far from the tree
word: thumbnut
word: tiger-nut
word: tiger nut
word: tougher nut to crack
word: toughest nut to crack
word: tough nut
word: tough nut to crack
word: tree nut
word: truck nuts
word: turdnut
word: use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
word: vomic nut
word: vomiting nut
word: vomit nut
word: walnut
word: walshnut
word: welshnut
word: wing-nut
word: wingnut
word: wire nut
word: Yowah nut
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