Nut

Noun

 * 1) A hard-shelled seed.
 * There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
 * 1) A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
 * 2) * 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95
 * 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.
 * 1)  A crazy person.
 * He was driving his car like a nut.
 * 1)  The head.
 * 2)  A testicle.
 * I was kicked in the nuts
 * 1)  Semen, ejaculate.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
 * 3) * 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
 * My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
 * 2)  On string 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.
 * 3)  En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
 * 4) An extreme enthusiast (See #3)
 * a fashion nut
 * a gun nut
 * a sailing nut
 * 1)  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.)
 * 2) * 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
 * When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
 * 1)   Relating to the nuts, the best possible hand on a given board.
 * 1)   Relating to the nuts, the best possible hand on a given board.

Synonyms

 * loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter
 * bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head)
 * ball, bollock, nads

Verb

 * 1)  To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
 * 2) * 1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
 * One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
 * 1)  To ejaculate (semen).

Thesaurus
Brazil nut, English walnut, Macadamia nut, acorn, addict, aficionado, alien, aliene, almond, almond paste, amande, amande douce, amandes mondees, amateur, authority, bean, bedlamite, beechnut, ben nut, berry, betel nut, bigot, bird seed, bitter almond, black walnut, blanched almonds, bonduc nut, borderline case, bring in, buff, bug, burnt almond, butternut, candlenut, case, cashew, cashew nut, character, chestnut, chinquapin, cobnut, coconut, collector, conk, connoisseur, corozo nut, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, critic, crop, crop herbs, cuckoo, cumara nut, cut, dement, demon, demoniac, devotee, dig, dika nut, dilettante, ding-a-ling, dome, eager beaver, eccentric, energumen, enthusiast, erratic, expert, faddist, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fiend, flake, flaxseed, fou, freak, fruit, gather, gather in, glean, goober, goober pea, grabble, grain, great one for, ground-pea, groundnut, harebrain, harvest, hay, hayseed, head, hermit, hickory nut, hobbyist, hobo, horse chestnut, hound, idiot, infatuate, issue, kernel, kola, kola nut, kook, linseed, litchi nut, lone wolf, loner, loon, loony, lunatic, lunatic fringe, madman, maniac, maverick, meat, meshuggenah, monomaniac, mow, natural, nigger toe, noddle, noggin, noisette, noix, non compos, noncompos, nonconformist, noodle, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, palm nut, pariah, peanut, peanut butter, pecan, phrenetic, pick, pine nut, pip, pistachio, pit, pluck, poll, pundit, pursuer, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, question, rara avis, raving lunatic, reap, reap and carry, recluse, rhapsodist, salted peanuts, sassafras nut, savant, scholar, screwball, seed, solitary, souari nut, specialist, stone, strange duck, sucker for, sweet almond, technical expert, technician, tramp, type, visionary, walnut, weirdo, zealot

Etymology
From nute:, note:, from  hnutu:, from  (cf. West Frisian nút:, Dutch noot:, German Nuss:), from  (cf. Irish cnó: ‘nut’, Latin nux: ‘walnut’).

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (jáuza),  (mukassarāt)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 堅果, 坚果 (jiān guǒ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nukso
 * Filipino: mani
 * Finnish:
 * French: fruit sec; is often used, but this actually means “walnut”
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάρυον (kárion)
 * Modern: ξυρός καρπός (xyrós karpós), (karýdi)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: אגוז (egóz)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 木の実 (konomí)


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: rieksts
 * Macedonian: орев
 * Manx:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: nøtt, nòt
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnò
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, fruta seca
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: గింజ
 * Thai: (lôok)
 * Tok Pisin: nat
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: נוס


 * Arabic: (ṣamūla)
 * Armenian: պնդօղակ
 * Czech:, matice
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (paksimádi)
 * Hebrew: האם (ha-óm)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: uzgrieznis


 * Macedonian: навртка
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: nakrętka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: నట్టు
 * Tok Pisin: nat
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: (maxbūl)
 * Armenian: գիժ
 * Dutch: gek, gekkin , In Belgium and South Netherlands, zot and zottin  are often used
 * Filipino: tanga, baliw
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Irre, Irrer
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: gealt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 気違い (きちがい, kichigái)


 * Korean: 미친 (michin)
 * Latvian: trakais, jucis
 * Macedonian: чукнат
 * Norwegian: galning, gærning
 * Polish: świr
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, țicnit
 * Russian:, сумасшедшая
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, knäppis
 * Telugu: తిక్కల వ్యక్తి, తింగర వ్యక్తి
 * Tok Pisin: longlongman


 * Arabic: (ra’s),  (qárʕa)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , Dötz
 * Hungarian:


 * Norwegian: nøtt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Tok Pisin: het


 * Arabic: (béiḍa)
 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, teelbal
 * Filipino: bayag
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, recently:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,


 * Latvian: pauti
 * Macedonian:, маде
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: clach
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tok Pisin: bol


 * : collective noun  (1), kraouenn (2), brizh-sod (3),,  (4)
 * : nuce (1); matre vite (2); folle (3); teste (4), testiculo (4)

Related terms

 * coconut
 * groundnut
 * hazelnut
 * monkeynut
 * peanut
 * walnut
 * nutbeam
 * nutbag


 * nutcase
 * nutter
 * nutcracker
 * nutdriver
 * nutmeat
 * nutmeg
 * nutshell
 * sweet as a nut

Anagrams

 * tun

Noun

 * 1) use, benefit

Derived terms

 * nuttig
 * nutteloos

Noun

 * 1) roundend, tall mountain top

Etymology
From hnútr:.

Interjection

 * 1)  no; used to show disagreement or negation.