nutty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈnʌti/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌti
- Hyphenation: nut‧ty
Adjective[edit]
nutty (comparative nuttier, superlative nuttiest)
- Containing nuts.
- This is a nutty chocolate bar.
- Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
- (slang) Barmy, crazy, mad.
- Synonyms: nuts, squirrelly; see also Thesaurus:insane
- Your wife is as nutty as a fruitcake.
- (British, dated) Extravagantly fashionable
- 1932, Frank Richards, “The Complete Outsider”, in The Magnet:
- Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.
Usage notes[edit]
In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.
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Translations[edit]
containing nuts
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