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[nuht] /nʌt/

noun
1.
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
2.
the kernel itself.
3.
Botany. a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.
4.
any of various devices or ornaments resembling a nut.
5.
a block, usually of metal and generally square or hexagonal, perforated with a threaded hole so that it can be screwed down on a bolt to hold together objects through which the bolt passes.
6.
Slang. the head.
7.
Slang.

8.
Slang.

9.
Slang: Vulgar. a testis.
10.
Informal.

11.
Music.

12.
Printing. (def 2).
verb (used without object), nutted, nutting.
13.
to seek for or gather nuts:
to go nutting in late autumn.
Idioms
14.
from soup to nuts. (def 7).
15.
hard nut to crack,

Also, tough nut to crack.
16.
off one’s nut, Slang.

[noot] /nut/
noun, Egyptian Religion.
1.
the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside.
British.
1.
National Union of Teachers.
/nʌt/
noun
1.
a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit that usually possesses a woody wall
2.
(not in technical use) any similar fruit, such as the walnut, having a hard shell and an edible kernel
3.
the edible kernel of such a fruit
4.
(slang)

5.
a slang word for head (sense 1)
6.
(Brit, slang) do one’s nut, to be extremely angry; go into a rage
7.
(slang) off one’s nut, mad, crazy, or foolish
8.
a person or thing that presents difficulties (esp in the phrase a tough or hard nut to crack)
9.
a small square or hexagonal block, usu. metal, with a threaded hole through the middle for screwing on the end of a bolt
10.
(mountaineering) a variously shaped small metal block, usually a wedge or hexagonal prism (originally an ordinary engineer’s nut) with a wire or rope loop attached, for jamming into a crack to provide security Also called chock
11.
(music) Also called (US and Canadian) frog

12.
(printing) another word for en
13.
a small usually gingery biscuit
14.
(Brit) a small piece of coal
verb nuts, nutting, nutted
15.
(intransitive) to gather nuts
16.
(transitive) (slang) to butt (someone) with the head
abbreviation (in Britain)
1.
National Union of Teachers
n.

“hard seed,” Old English hnutu, from Proto-Germanic *khnut- (cf. Old Norse hnot, Dutch noot, Old High German hnuz, German nuß “nut”), from PIE *kneu- “nut” (cf. Latin nux; see nucleus). Sense of “testicle” is attested from 1915. Nut-brown is from c.1300 of animals; c.1500 of complexions of women.

Meaning “crazy person, crank” is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958; nut-case is from 1959); see nuts. American English slang sense of “amount of money required for something” is first recorded 1912. The nut that goes onto a bolt is first recorded 1610s (used of other small mechanical pieces since early 15c.). Nuts and bolts “fundamentals” is from 1960.
nut
(nŭt)
A dry, indehiscent simple fruit consisting of one seed surrounded by a hard and thick pericarp (fruit wall). The seed does not adhere to the pericarp but is connected to it by the funiculus. A nut is similar to an achene but larger. Acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, and hazelnuts are true nuts. Informally, other edible seeds or dry fruits enclosed in a hard or leathery shell are also called nuts, though they are not true nuts. For instance, an almond kernel is actually the seed of a drupe. Its familiar whitish shell is an endocarp found within the greenish fruit of the almond tree. Peanuts are actually individual seeds from a seed pod called a legume.

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Related Terms

gripe one’s ass, off one’s nut, tough nut, a tough nut to crack

[insanity sense probably fr late 1800s off one’s nut, that is, head; senses 4, 5, and 6 fr the custom of taking the retaining nut from the wheel of a circus wagon, to be returned when all bills were paid]
In addition to the idioms beginning with nut
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