Nut Meaning and Definition


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What is the definition Nut? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Antonyms, Synonyms, How to pronounce? Example sentences, Words ending with Nut, Words starting with Nut, Related sentences, Derivations and more...

Nut meaning

Word: Nut

How to pronounce: nʌt

Noun

Definitions:

1. A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Example sentences: "He was cracking nuts with his teeth"

2. A small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing on to a bolt as a fastener.

Example sentences: "Fix the new pipe and tighten the nuts"

3. A crazy or eccentric person.

4. A person's head.

5. A man's testicles.

6. The fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass.

Example sentences: "The positioning allows the strings a straight path over the nut"

Verb

Definitions:

1. Gather nuts.

Example sentences: "In autumn children would go nutting"

2. Butt (someone) with one's head.

Proper noun

Definitions:

1. The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.


Synonyms:

screw nut

female screw

screw

walnut

hazelnut

cashew

nutlet

loony

crazy

psycho

crackpot

nutter

dingbat

nuts

egg

lunatic

psychopath

beans

sicko

fruitcake

loon

cuckoo

wacko

nutcase

head case

nutty

crank

weirdo

freak

kook

codger

oddball

git

jackass

punk

screwball

oddity

wrench

ninny

simpleton

sucker


Antonyms:

locknut

locking nut


Derivations:

nutlet

nuthouse


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Nut in Other Languages...

Spanish: Nuez

German: Nuss

French: Noix

Italian: Dado

Turkish: Fındık


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