nut
Forms
- Plural
- nuts
- present (v1)
- nut
- past (v2)
- nutted
- past participle (v3)
- nutted
- present participle
- nutting
- 3rd person singular
- nuts
Definitions
1.Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
2.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.
3.The head.(slang)
- Off one's nut, crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
- 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.
4.A crazy person.(slang)
- He was driving his car like a nut.
- Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
1.To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.(slang)
2.To orgasm; to ejaculate.(slang)
3.To hit in the testicles.(slang)
4.To gather nuts.
- I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2984
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.