NUT

nut

(noun) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg

(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; “she kicked him in the balls and got away”

Nut

(noun) Egyptian goddess of the sky

addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky

(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; “a golf addict”; “a car nut”; “a bodybuilding freak”; “a news junkie”

crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball

(noun) a whimsically eccentric person

nut

(noun) usually large hard-shelled seed

en, nut

(noun) half the width of an em

nut

(verb) gather nuts

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Nut

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Proper noun

NUT

(UK) Initialism of National Union of Teachers.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Etymology 1

Noun

nut (plural nuts)

A hard-shelled seed.

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.

Hypernym: fastener

(slang) A crazy person.

Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter, Thesaurus:mad person

(slang) The head.

Synonyms: bonce, noodle

(US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

(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.

(musical instruments, 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]

(vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.

Synonyms: ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads

(vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.

(vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm (male), ejaculation, release of semen

(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

(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.)

(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”).

The tumbler of a gunlock.

(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Verb

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle (nonstandard) nut or nutted)

(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

(UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

(slang, mildly, vulgar) To ejaculate.

Synonyms

• (to gather nuts)

• (to headbutt): butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf

• (to ejaculate): blow a nut, bust a nut; see also ejaculate

Etymology 2

Interjection

nut

(Scotland, colloquial) No.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Source: Wiktionary

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Nut, n. Etym: [OE. nute, note, AS. hnutu; akin to D. noot, G. nuss, OHG. nuz, Icel. hnot, Sw. nöt, Dan. nöd.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.

3. The tumbler of a gunlock. Knight.

4. (Naut.)

Definition: A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. Check nut, Jam nut, Lock nut, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut.

– Nut buoy. See under Buoy.

– Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also chestnut coal.

– Nut crab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe.

– Nut grass (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields.

– Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring.

– Nut pine. (Bot.) See under Pine.

– Nut rush (Bot.), a genus of cyperaceous plants (Scleria) having a hard bony achene. Several species are found in the United States and many more in tropical regions.

– Nut tree, a tree that bears nuts.

– Nut weevil (Zoöl.), any species of weevils of the genus Balaninus and other allied genera, which in the larval state live in nuts.

Nut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Nutting.]

Definition: To gather nuts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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