单词 | nutter |
释义 | nuttern.1ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 44v Nuclearius, a notere. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 87v A Nutter, nuclearius. 2. A person who gathers nuts. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > nut-gathering > nut-gatherer nutboy1653 nutcatcher1746 nutter1826 1826 in W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Sept. 782 I had some talk with some of these nutters. 1864 T. Miller Birds, Bees, & Blossoms 110 And oh! what a pleasure I've felt as I stood And heard the glad nutters shout in the green wood. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 1 And a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted. a1923 H. Trench Poems (1924) 149 But look! within the beech's burning house Some Nutter, deaf to shouts of fellow-thieves, Hath flung him with his crook to dream and drowse. 2005 Church Times 4 Nov. 40/3 October, a time of sumptuous colour, singing wind, and scuttling creatures in East Anglia. Leaves not only fall, but can be heard being thrown about by nutters, rabbits, and dogs. 3. An insane person; a deranged or unstable person. Also in weakened sense: an eccentric person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 36 The reason for this is to find out wether [sic] or not you are a nutter. 1963 ‘A. Garve’ Sea Monks v. 135 I reckon Chris was right, Rosie—King's a nutter. I reckon he'll go on killin' till there ain't no one left. 1973 J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 98 The young man was obviously a nutter... His slobbing mouth. His windmilling arms. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 90 ‘Husband's a nutter, of course,’ he said; ‘they always are.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Nuttern.2 Chiefly British. Now rare. A substitute for butter, made from the oil of nuts; nut butter.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine palm oil1625 vegetable oil1651 butter of mace1694 Negro-oil1753 sunflower oil1768 Galam butter1782 vegetable butter1790 vegetable fat1797 winter oil1811 butter substitute1834 red palm oil1836 butter oil1844 shea butter1847 palm butter1848 vegetable lard1859 palm-kernel oil1863 butterine1866 margarine1873 oleomargarine1873 bosch1879 oleo1884 oleo oil1884 vegetable shortening1892 Nucoline1894 almond butter1895 nut butter1896 Nutter1906 marge1919 Maggie Ann1931 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 maggie1971 canola oil1982 1906 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 4/2 ‘Nutter’, ‘Nucoline’, and ‘Nuttene’—all representing butter made from nuts. 1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica vii. §3 Fruitarian refreshments—chestnut sandwiches buttered with nutter, and so forth. 1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 2 May in In Happy Memory 127 One [trench mortar]..fires a cylindrical thing like a Nutter tin. 1920 Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 May 971 Nutter... Fats used in cooking. Mapleton's Nut Food Company, Limited,..Liverpool; food manufacturers. 1958 Catal. County Stores (Taunton) June 29 Vegetarian foods..Cooking Fat, Nutter lb. 2/1. 1963 D. Keighley Vegetarian Cook Bk. (1968) 28 The rissoles should then be fried in deep Nutter or other vegetable fat until a golden brown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1425n.21906 |
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