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nuttery|ˈnʌtərɪ|
[f. nut n.1 + -ery.]
1. A place in which nut-trees grow.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 50 In another moment he has mounted the bank, and is in the midst of the nuttery. 1932H. Nicolson Diary 20 Mar. (1966) 113 What would be good..would be to put the end of the main nuttery walk at the end of a main vista.
2. A place in which nuts are stored.
1881Graphic 15 Oct. 402/1 Busy rats, who carry off and also establish a nuttery. 1882Cent. Mag. XXV. 300 They [mice] generally have a well-filled granary or nuttery.
3. slang. A mental hospital.
1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route vi. 62 Should the sociotechnic social worker be convinced that you are not normal she will have you bound for a nuttery before sunset. 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 147/2 Nuttery, an institution for the criminally insane or for mentally defective delinquents. |