nut

Meaning

1. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
2. 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. (slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
8. Senses related to male genitalia.
9. (slang) Senses related to male genitalia.
10. (slang) Senses related to male genitalia.
11. (slang) Senses related to male genitalia.
12. (slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
13. (slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
14. (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. 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.

seed

screw nut

female screw

cover nut

screw-nut

sippet

difficult problem

Chilean hazelnut

mediety

one-half

blind nut

inside screw

extra-hard

nut screw

luny

bolt cap

acorn

nut-screw

Adam’s apple

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nʌt/

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.