Word: nut Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /nʌt/, [nɐt], /nʊt/ 1. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. Labels: broadly Example: There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more. 2. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. Labels: broadly 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. Example: 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. 4. The head. Labels: slang Example: Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head. Example: 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. 5. A crazy person. Labels: slang Example: He was driving his car like a nut. Example: Which one of you nuts has got any guts? 6. An extreme enthusiast. Labels: colloquial Example: a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut 7. An extravagantly fashionable young man. Labels: Ireland, UK, dated, slang Example: ‘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 …. 8. Senses related to male genitalia. Labels: archaic Example: [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...] Example: 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. 9. Senses related to male genitalia. Labels: plural, slang, vulgar Example: I kicked him in the nuts. 10. Senses related to male genitalia. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: 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." 11. Senses related to male genitalia. Labels: countable, slang, vulgar Example: He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better. Example: […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […] 12. Monthly expense to keep a venture running. Labels: US, slang Example: $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big. 13. The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs. Labels: US, slang Example: My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.” 14. A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost. Labels: US, slang 15. 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. 16. En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use. Labels: slang 17. 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.) Example: When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged. 18. The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”). Labels: attributive Example: nut straight, nut flush, nut full house Example: I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house. 19. The tumbler of a gunlock. 20. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. 21. A small rounded cake or cookie. Example: dough-nut Example: ginger nut