nut

Meaning

Noun

1. (broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
2. (broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
3. A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
4. (slang) The head.
5. (slang) A crazy person.
6. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
7. (Ireland, UK, dated, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
8. (archaic) Senses related to male genitalia.
9. (plural, slang, vulgar) Senses related to male genitalia.
10. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Senses related to male genitalia.
11. (countable, slang, vulgar) Senses related to male genitalia.
12. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
13. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
14. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
15. On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
16. (slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
17. A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
18. (attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
19. The tumbler of a gunlock.
20. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
21. A small rounded cake or cookie.

Verb

1. To gather nuts.
2. (UK, slang, transitive) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
3. (mildly, slang, vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
4. (slang) To hit in the testicles.
5. (slang) To defeat thoroughly.

Intj

No.

Synonyms

seed

fruit

testicle

ball

grain

bollock

ballock

orchis

egg

🥚

testis

berry

kernel

pit

madman

fool

crank

nuts

crackpot

nutter

screw nut

walnut

fruitcake

stone

🪨

peanut

female screw

kook

loony

crazy

nut case

junky

addict

cover nut

junkie

insane

pine kernel

idiot

hazelnut

pea

screwball

freak

maniac

bean

mad

loco

almond

en

eccentric

bonkers

bolt

crackers

Translations

écrou

noix

Nuss

noce

Mutter

👩‍🍼

tuerca

nuez

noot

dado

💀

noz

moer

👩‍🍼

porca

Schraubenmutter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nʌt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: nute

Inherited from Old English: hnutu

Cognate with Latin: nux

Cognate with Western Frisian: nút

Cognate with Dutch: noot

Cognate with German: Nuss

Cognate with Danish: nød

Cognate with Swedish: nöt

Cognate with Norwegian: nøtt

In summary

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.