nut.
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Meaning & usage
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.
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
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.
The head.
A crazy person.
He was driving his car like a nut.
An extreme enthusiast.
a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
An extravagantly fashionable young man.
Senses related to male genitalia. The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
Senses related to male genitalia. A testicle, often used in the plural form.
I kicked him in the nuts.
Senses related to male genitalia. Semen, ejaculate, cum.
Senses related to male genitalia. Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
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.
En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
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.)
The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house.
The tumbler of a gunlock.
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
A small rounded cake or cookie.
dough-nut
ginger nut
Where this word comes from
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.
To gather nuts.
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
To orgasm; to ejaculate.
To hit in the testicles.
To defeat thoroughly.
Where this word comes from
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.
No.
Where this word comes from
Variant of not.
Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
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