nutcracker

See also: Nutcracker

English

Nutcracker

Clark's nutcracker, a species of genus Nucifraga

A nutcracker-style bottled cocktail

Etymology

nut +‎ cracker

Noun

nutcracker (plural nutcrackers)

1. An implement for cracking nuts.
2. (ornithology) Either of two birds of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
3. (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
   • 2019 August 17, Aaron Randle, “Banned on the Beach? It’s Still Nutcracker Summer”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The colorful bottles have popped up every summer in black and Hispanic communities — from the bodegas of Washington Heights to the stoops of Fort Greene — since the early 1990s. On beach boardwalks, at neighborhood basketball courts and block parties, New Yorkers are drinking nutcrackers, boozy homespun cocktails made from a blend of alcohol and fruit juices.

4. (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
   • 1978, The Laboregister, volume 2, Michigan Department of Labor, page 177:

     I hadn't been to school for a while so the math was a real nutcracker

Derived terms

• Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
• spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

Translations

implement for cracking nuts

• Afrikaans: notenkraker
• Albanian: arrëthyese (sq)
• Arabic: كَسَّارَة جَوْز f (kassārat jawz), كَسَّارَة بُنْدُق f (kassārat bunduq)
• Armenian: ընկույզկոտրիչ (hy) (ənkuyzkotričʻ), պոպոքջարդիչ (popokʻǰardičʻ) (colloquial)
• Azerbaijani: fındıqqıran
• Basque: intxaurkraskagailu
• Belarusian: шчаўку́нчык n (ščaŭkúnčyk)
• Bulgarian: орехотрошачка f (orehotrošačka)
• Catalan: trencanous m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘪嘴食管 (biě zuǐ shí guǎn), 胡桃夹子 (hútáo jiázi), 胡桃钳 (hútáo qián)

• Czech: louskáček (cs) m
• Danish: nøddeknækker (da) c
• Dutch: notenkraker (nl) m
• Faroese: nøtubrótari m
• Finnish: pähkinänsärkijä (fi)
• French: casse-noix (fr) m, casse-noisettes (fr) m
• Georgian: მაკნატუნა (maḳnaṭuna)
• German: Nussknacker (de) m
• Greek: καρυοθραύστης (el) m (karyothráfstis)
• Gujarati: સૂડી (sūḍī)
• Hindi: सरौता (hi) (sarautā)
• Hungarian: diótörő (hu)
• Icelandic: hnetubrjótur (is) m
• Ido: nucoruptilo (io)
• Indonesian: alat pemecah buah keras
• Italian: schiaccianoci (it) m
• Japanese: くるみ割り (kurumiwari)
• Korean: 호두까기 (hodukkagi)
• Latvian: riekstu knaibles f pl
• Macedonian: оревокршачка f (orevokršačka)
• Malay: pemecah buah keras, kacip
• Norman: craque-nouaix m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøtteknekker m

• Persian: فندق‌شکن (fandoq-šekan)
• Polish: dziadek do orzechów (pl) m
• Portuguese: quebra-nozes (pt)
• Romanian: spărgător de nuci m
• Russian: щипцы́ для оре́хов m pl (ščipcý dlja oréxov), щелку́нчик (ru) m (ščelkúnčik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: krcaljka (sh), krckalica (sh), krcalica

• Slovak: luskáčik m
• Spanish: cascanueces (es) m
• Swedish: nötknäppare (sv) c or c pl
• Tagalog: pandurog ng nuwes
• Tajik: фундуқшикан (funduqšikan)
• Tatar: çikləwek watuçı
• Telugu: అడకత్తెర (te) (aḍakattera)
• Turkish: fındıkkıran (tr)
• Ukrainian: лускунчик (luskunčyk)
• Uzbek: yong'oq chaqadigan
• Vietnamese: cái kẹp để kẹp trái de
• Welsh: gefail gnau f

bird of the genus Nucifraga

• Bulgarian: орешарка (bg) f (orešarka)
• Catalan: trencanous m
• Czech: ořešník (cs) m
• Danish: nøddekrige
• Dutch: notenkraker (nl) m
• Estonian: mänsak sg
• Finnish: pähkinähakki (fi)
• French: cassenoix (fr) m
• German: Tannenhäher (de) m
• Hungarian: fenyőszajkó (hu) sg
• Icelandic: notbrjótur
• Irish: cnóire
• Italian: nocciolaia (it)
• Korean: 잣까마귀 (jatkkamagwi)
• Latvian: riekstrozis m
• Lithuanian: riešutinė
• Macedonian: лешникарка f (lešnikarka)
• Navajo: bitsiichįįshgahí
• Northern Sami: niehttegarjá
• Polish: orzechówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: quebra-nozes (pt)
• Romanian: alunar (ro) m
• Russian: кедро́вка (ru) f (kedróvka), оре́ховка (ru) f (oréxovka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnòthair
• Serbo-Croatian: kreja (sh) f
• Slovak: orešnica f
• Slovene: krekovt
• Spanish: cascanueces (es)
• Swedish: nötkråka (sv)
• Ukrainian: горіхівка (horixivka)

See also

• nutpick

Further reading

• nutcracker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nutcracker (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nucifraga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nucifraga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Nutcrackers on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons