honky nut
noun Australian
The hard seed capsule of the marri tree: they threw honky nuts at the parrots...
- We used to collect them by the bucket load at school and have honky nut wars between teams of kids.
- What I think of as a proper honky nut is about the size of the last section of your thumb, and vaguely spiked.
- I don't know what the correct name is for these things, but as kids, we called any sort of large nut a "honky nut".
Origin
1980s: of unknown origin.
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