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cobnut

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?b?n?t/

Noun

cobnut (plural cobnuts)

  1. The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
  2. A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
  3. A game played by children with nuts.

See also

  • filbert (usually the American hazel, Corylus americana or Corylus maxima, which is common in Oregon)

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filbert

English

Alternative forms

  • filberd

Etymology

Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f?lb?t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?f?lb?t/

Noun

filbert (plural filberts)

  1. The hazelnut.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
      I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock.
  2. The hazel tree.
  3. A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.

Synonyms

  • (nut): hazelnut
  • (tree): hazelnut

Hyponyms

  • cobnut (usually the common hazel (Corylus avellana) which grows in the UK and Europe)

Translations

Anagrams

  • beflirt

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