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nutty, a.|ˈnʌtɪ|
[f. nut n.1 + -y1.]
1. Abounding in, or productive of, nuts.
1662–7Cowley Of Plants Wks. (Grosart) II. 276/1 The Hazel.., upon whose nutty Top A Squirrel sits. 1859Sala Tw. Round Clock (1861) 271 Barcelona (which nutty seaport I have never visited). 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 268 The nutty, briary hedgerows.
2. a. Nut-like; having a taste like nuts.
1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 1132 Fine olive oil is extremely bland and tasteless, or at least has only a slight nutty flavour. 1853Wolff Pict. Sp. Life 38 Next comes orchata de chufas, white creamy nutty liquid, soothing the soul. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 211 Their flavour when taken from the bush is sweet, juicy, ‘nutty’.
b. Pleasant, rich, full of zest or flavour.
1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 498 Supper, drink, and nutty mirth succeeded. 1894Current Hist. IV. 475 It has, too, Mr. Blackmore's characteristic, leisurely, nutty humor in abundance.
c. slang. Spicy or piquant in interest.
1894Sala London up to Date 329 The case, he incidentally adds, promises to be a ‘nutty’ one.
d. nutty slack, coal slack in small lumps or nuts (see nut n.1 18). Also fig.
1953New Yorker 31 Jan. 58/2 The low-grade small coal appetizingly known as ‘nutty slack’,..gives off far less appetizing fumes and dirt. 1953Truth 13 Feb. 165 Durham Dilemma. We can't buy Nutty Slack. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 163 Stew, a not infrequent component of school dinners, is..in Croydon, ‘nutty slack’. After an inapt term coined by the Ministry of Fuel (1952) for a poor quality coal, obtainable off the ration. The nuts were few and far between.
3. slang.
a. Amorous, fond; enthusiastic. Usu. const. upon (a person).
1821Egan Life in London I. 223 The Hon. Tom Dashall..was getting..rather nutty in that quarter of the globe. 1823Grose's Dict. Vulgar T. (Egan) s.v. Nuts, A person who conceives a strong inclination for another of the opposite sex, is said to be quite nutty, or nuts upon him or her. 1828Sporting Mag. XXII. 174 The Strand-lane and Lambeth men became quite nutty upon their brethren, and offered to back them at any odds. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXII. 583 Being so nutty upon one another.
b. Queer; not right in the head. Also in phr. nutty as a fruit-cake.
1898S. Crane in Cosmopolitan Dec. 169/1 ‘What's the matter with that feller?’ asked Martin. ‘Nutty,’ said the man. 1901Pall Mall G. 27 May 6/2 Patterson declared that Philbrook was ‘nutty’ in regard to the question of fraud, and that he was crazy over the idea that everybody opposed to him was dishonest. 1935G. & S. Lorimer Heart Specialist vi. 163 ‘Listen, Alix, you're as nutty as a fruitcake,’ I said..‘If I were you I'd have more sense.’ 1955P. Wildeblood Against Law 104 He's as nutty as a fruit-cake. 1960H. Pinter Caretaker iii. 77 He's nutty, he's half way gone. 1963Daily Mirror 6 Nov. 2/3 You have to be a real sour square not to love the nutty, noisy, happy, handsome Beatles. 1967Wodehouse Company for Henry v. 84 ‘He doesn't strike me as unbalanced.’ ‘On his special subject he's as nutty as a fruit cake.’ 1972C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia (1973) xxxii. 207 Jesus, you and your nutty imagination! 1974Author Spring 26 Yeats was a great poet and a fascinating critic, but if he had been hired to give a year's course of lectures on the development of English poetry his performance would have been extremely nutty.
c. Of jazz or popular music: see quots.
1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz x. 347 Nutty,..great, exceptional. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 290 The modern..fashion of using terms taken from mental derangement for praise (crazy, insane, nutty).
4. slang. Smart, spruce.
1823Byron Juan xi. xix, Black-eyed Sal (his blowing), So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing. 1834Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v. II. 346 But my nuttiest blowen, one fine day,..To the beaks did her fancy man betray. 1839Reynolds Pickw. Abroad xxvi. 224 And the beak wore his nuttiest wig.
5. Comb., as nutty-brown, nutty-flavoured, nutty-looking.
1828Sporting Mag. XXIII. 33 Master Tommy, who by the bye is a devilish nutty looking lad. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1862) 185 One of Truefitt's best nutty⁓brown wigs. 1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 251 With a clear cinnamon-brown seed-coat, and a bland, sweetish, nutty-flavoured kernel. |