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Nut

noun

Usually large hard-shelled seed.

Egyptian goddess of the sky.

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

Half the width of an em. Synonym: en.

A whimsically eccentric person. Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball.

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"

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)

Gather nuts.

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"Nut" Quotes from Famous Books

... the thirty-five paper roubles and the silver rouble for the halter! Week after week, month after month you have been putting by your money, and to-day you'll spend it all as if you were cracking a nut. You will swell Grochowski's pockets and your own pouch will be empty. You will wait in fear and uncertainty at the manor and bow to the bailiff when it pleases him to give you the receipt ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

... throw in a dog collar, he couldn't run fast enough to get away from me. Curry put in an application to the Jockey Club and had the name changed from Silver Star to Elisha. Won't have anything but Bible names, the old nut! ...

— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

... Cassandre came Marie, the fifteen-year-old daughter of an Angevin villager, nut-brown, smiling, and with cheeks the colour of a May rose. She died young, but not before she had made Ronsard suffer by coquetting with another lover. What is more important still, not before she had inspired him to write that sonnet which has about it so ...

— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd

... another help for digestion and to comfort the stomach, used by those who refrain from wine. This is an herb called betel, or paune, its leaf resembling that of our ivy. They chew this leaf along with a hard nut, called areka, somewhat like a nutmeg, mixing a little pure white lime among the leaves; and when they have extracted the juice, they throw away the remains. This has many rare qualities: It preserves the teeth, comforts the brain, strengthens ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... fellow-travelers there, seeing him smitten by a glance at her, following her when she got out, and laying his heart and coronet at her feet before she had run up the steps. If this man were not a shyster lawyer or a gold brick nut, he might ...

— The Dust Flower • Basil King

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