nutter

See also: Nutter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nʌtə/

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• Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nutter, notere, equivalent to nut +‎ -er.

Noun

nutter (plural nutters)

1. A person who gathers nuts.
2. (UK, Ireland, sometimes derogatory, informal) An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.
   • 2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain:

     That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter!

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 268:

     When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.'

Synonyms

• (insane person): loony, nut, nutcase; see also Thesaurus:mad person
• (eccentric person): kook, odd duck, wacko; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Derived terms

• pit nutter

 

Related terms

• nut
• nutbag
• nutty

Translations

a person who gathers nuts

(an old usage)

an eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person

• Finnish: kaheli (fi), kahjo (fi)
• Macedonian: лу́дак m (lúdak)
• Maori: porowairangi

Etymology 2

Blend of nut +‎ butter

Noun

nutter (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) nut butter
   • 1907, Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The International System of Direct Medication, page 223:

     Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended.

   • 1910, Great Britain. Local Government Board, Annual Report, number 39, page xci:

     Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.

Anagrams

• Rutten