nut
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /nʌt/, enPR: nŭt
- (California, New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [nɐt]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”) (compare West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt), from Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Irish cnó, Latin nux (“walnut”)).
NounEdit
nut (plural nuts)
- (food, broadly) 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.
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (hardware) 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.
- Hypernyms: fastener, hardware
- Hyponyms: acorn nut, barrel nut, square nut, wing nut, wingnut, T-nut
- 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[1]
- 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.
- (slang) A crazy person.
- Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
- He was driving his car like a nut.
- 1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):
- Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
- (slang) The head.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- 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.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- 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.”
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (music, lutherie) 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.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (dated, UK, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s-1920s]
- 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
- ‘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 [...].
- 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
- 2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:
- 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."
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.
- He just needs a good nut to make him feel better.
- 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc (→ISBN)
- […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- a fashion nut
- a gun nut
- a sailing nut
- (climbing) 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.)
- 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.
- 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
- (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- nut straight = the best possible straight available (it can't be beat by any other straight, though it can still be beat by a better non-straight hand)
- nut flush = the best possible flush available
- nut full house = the best possible full house available
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock[1].
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- dough-nut
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Japanese: ナット (natto)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)
- (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
- 1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists[2], volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171:
- I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
- 1847, Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress:
- […] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
- (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- Synonyms: butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
- 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...
- (slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
- Synonyms: blow a nut, bust a nut; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate
- 1996, “Bust a Nut”, performed by Uncle Luke featuring The Notorious B.I.G.:
- I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.
- (slang) To hit in the testicles.
- (slang) To defeat thoroughly.
Etymology 2Edit
Variant of not.
InterjectionEdit
nut
- (Scotland, colloquial) No.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:
- Did you like them boys? I goes.
- Nut. She shook her hair.
- Neither?
- Nut. Right townies.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nut (uncountable)
ReferencesEdit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the adjective Middle Dutch nutte (“useful”), or from Middle Dutch nut (“yield”), from Old Dutch *nut, from Proto-Germanic *nutją, *nutjō (“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to seize; grasp; use”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nut n (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nut (comparative nutter, superlative nutst)
InflectionEdit
Inflection of nut | ||||
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uninflected | nut | |||
inflected | nutte | |||
comparative | nutter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | nut | nutter | het nutst het nutste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | nutte | nuttere | nutste |
n. sing. | nut | nutter | nutste | |
plural | nutte | nuttere | nutste | |
definite | nutte | nuttere | nutste | |
partitive | nuts | nutters | — |
Derived termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
AdverbEdit
nut
- Alternative form of not
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nuter, definite plural nutene)
ReferencesEdit
- “nut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nutar, definite plural nutane)
ReferencesEdit
- “nut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old SwedishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.
NounEdit
nut f
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nut | nutin | nyter | nytrina(r), -rena(r) |
accusative | nut | nutina, -ena | nyter | nytrina(r), -rena(r) |
dative | nut | nutinni, -inne | nutum, -om | nutumin, -omen |
genitive | nuta(r) | nutinna(r) | nuta | nutanna |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: nöt
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nut f
ScotsEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
nut
- (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.
UnuaEdit
NounEdit
nut
- Alternative form of naut
Further readingEdit
- Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)