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Nuts

adjective
1.
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.  Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.



Nut

noun
1.
Usually large hard-shelled seed.
2.
Egyptian goddess of the sky.
3.
A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt.
4.
Half the width of an em.  Synonym: en.
5.
A whimsically eccentric person.  Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball.
6.
Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.  Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky.  "A car nut" , "A bodybuilding freak" , "A news junkie"
7.
One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.  Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis.
verb
(past & past part. nutted; pres. part. nutting)
1.
Gather nuts.



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"Nuts" Quotes from Famous Books



... its roots and stem are reached by the flood-tide. The nut, falling into the sand, is soon covered by it, and springs up in great strength. I have planted many, and enjoyed the fruit after five years. When the nuts are ripe, you hang them about the house: in a short time they shoot out sprigs and branches, and when these are about a yard long, you may put them into the ground, where they continue ...
— Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives • John Gottfried Haensel

... No, it is decidely something other than mere physical energy and brute strength. A light, active, vigorous physique is desirable and any one can have it. Again, the principle value of a non-flesh diet lies in the fact that fruits, nuts, corn and vegetables are possessed of rhythmic qualities and go to build up a fine, sensitive physique capable of greater powers of endurance and sustained mental effort than the 'carcass' of any animal ever can. Matter does affect mind in the lower stages of organic evolution but ...
— The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga • A. P. Mukerji

... eyes ever so little, close to my nose, and from underneath looked towards the earth, and it seemed to me that it was altogether no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, and that the men walking on it were little bigger than hazel nuts; so you may see how high we must have got ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... they flew, for they were not a year old themselves, and knew nothing about autumn nuts and berries. ...
— His Big Opportunity • Amy Le Feuvre

... set forth, two small plates heaped high with bread-and-butter sandwiches, a coffee-pot and milk-pitcher of beaten egg and milk, a tea-pot of grape juice, one dish of nuts and another of jelly, the waitress's eyes spoke so eloquently that Flossie mercifully dismissed her on the spot, and invited a lady of her acquaintance to the feast, who immediately drew up a chair ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham


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