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/nʌt
/- Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests.
- The nut's hard ash-coloured shell contains toxic substances similar to what is found in poison ivy and poison oak.
- The fruit of this tree is a nut and is edible if roasted.
- We would not be restricted to salad vegetables, fruits and nuts, milk, raw fish, and steak tartare.
- The nuts, olives and breadsticks are a nice touch.
- Steer clear of digestion-challenging fatty foods, including butter, cream, olive oil, crisps and nuts.
Synonyms
- It is a question that applies also to threads in metal, such as bolts and nuts and screw fasteners.
- They ranged from the production of brass and other non-ferrous metals to screws, nuts, bolts, chains and anchors, pins, and jewellery.
- The deck is fiberglass composite with balsa wood core and is securely fastened with nuts, bolts, and washers to the inward hull flange.
- I got up this morning and was moving around like a crazy nut.
- He's such a crazy nut, he would've done the naked pics for each team had he been there.
- Then more whacko tourists would inundate their pristine land of home-grown nuts and fruitcakes.
Synonyms
- Well I don't know about that but if some religious nut, er, enthusiast wants me to be happy well, it's better than penile enhancement promos.
- Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut.
- As a professional nude nut however, Tim was faced with a dilemma.
Synonyms
Synonyms
- The right-hand bridges usually carry the bass strings, which run across the soundboard to the nut on the opposite edge.
- One of them grabbed my hand, so I pulled it away and he pushed me against a wall, and then he nutted me and I fell to the floor.
- I could nut him and put him down, or keep negotiating and calming him.
- I went up for the ball and got there first but one of their lads just nutted me in the wrong place.
- Bill Oddie said at the launch yesterday ‘We want everyone to get out and get nutting.’
Phrases
do one's nut
nuts and bolts
off one's nut
a tough (or hard) nut
a tough (or hard) nut to crack
use (or take) a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Derivatives
nut-like
- During these complex steps of ribosome biogenesis, parts of the leader rRNA nut-like sequences undergo transient interactions with sequence elements within the first 400 nucleotides from the 5′ end of the mature 16S rRNA.
- The theca of Pentremites has a rather nut-like shape, and fossil Pentremites are sometimes inaccurately called ‘fossil nuts’ or ‘fossil hickory nuts’.
- The tiny, bead-like amaranth grains have a hearty, nut-like flavor.
Origin
Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss.
The Old English word nut is related to the Latin nux, also meaning ‘nut’, and to nucleus. The informal meanings ‘crazy or eccentric person’ and ‘person who is excessively interested in a particular thing’, both date from the early 20th century. They probably come from the informal sense ‘a person's head’. This latter sense is the one behind phrases such as do your nut, or get very cross, and is the root of nutty meaning ‘mad or crazy’. It is also the source of the verb ‘to nut’, or butt with the head, which is first found in the 1930s. See also fruit. A nutshell has been used since the late 16th century to symbolize compactness or shortness. Shakespeare's Hamlet says, ‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.’ The idea is thought to have come from the supposed existence of a copy of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, which was small enough to fit into an actual nutshell, mentioned by the Roman scholar Pliny (ad 23–79) in his Natural History.
Rhymes
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