different between nut vs hound

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?t/, enPR: n?t
  • (California, General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [n?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”) (compare West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt), from Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Irish cnó, Latin nux (“walnut”), Albanian nyç (“a gnarl”)).

Noun

nut (plural nuts)

1. A hard-shelled seed.

3. A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

   Hypernym: fastener

   Hyponyms: acorn nut, barrel nut, square nut, wing nut

   • 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[1]

     As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

4. (slang) A crazy person.

   Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
5. (slang) The head.

   Synonyms: bonce, noodle
6. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
7. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:

     My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

8. (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.
9. (music, lutherie) 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.
10. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
11. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s-1920s]
    • 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:

      ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].

12. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.

    Synonyms: ball, (taboo slang) bollock, nads

13. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
14. (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
    • 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)

      […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.
15. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

16. (climbing) 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.)
    • 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88

      When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.

17. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).

18. The tumbler of a gunlock.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

19. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
20. (archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)

1. (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
2. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

   Synonyms: butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
3. (slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.

   Synonyms: blow a nut, bust a nut; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.

Etymology 2

Interjection

nut

1. (Scotland, colloquial) No.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:

     Did you like them boys? I goes.

     Nut. She shook her hair.

     Neither?

     Nut. Right townies.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n??t]

Noun

nut (plural [please provide])

1. use, benefit

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Etymology

From the adjective Middle Dutch nutte (“useful”), or from Middle Dutch nut (“yield”), from Old Dutch *nut, from Proto-Germanic *nutj?, *nutj? (“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to seize; grasp; use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Hyphenation: nut
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

nut n (uncountable)

1. use, point, utility, sense

   Synonym: zin

2. benefit

   Synonym: voordeel

Derived terms

• Nutsman
• nuttig
• nutteloos

Adjective

nut (comparative nutter, superlative nutst)

1. (obsolete) useful

   Synonym: nuttig

Inflection

Derived terms

• onnut

Middle English

Adverb

nut

1. Alternative form of not

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nuter, definite plural nutene)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nutar, definite plural nutane)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• not

Etymology

From Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Noun

nut f

1. nut

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: nöt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nut/

Noun

nut f

1. genitive plural of nuta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Interjection

nut

1. (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.

Unua

Noun

nut

1. Alternative form of naut

Further reading

• Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, German Low German Hund, Danish hund, Faroese hundur, Icelandic hundur, Norwegian Bokmål hund, Norwegian Nynorsk hund, and Swedish hund), from pre-Germanic *?untós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *?w? (“dog”) (compare Welsh cwn (“dogs”), Tocharian B ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Armenian ???? (šun), Russian ???? (suka). Doublet of canine.

Noun

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
2. Any canine animal.
3. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
   • 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ?ISBN, page 93,

     On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.

   • 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, ?ISBN, page 483

     I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.

4. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
   • 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,

     "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]

     "She had a good many successors, John."

     "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."

5. A despicable person.
   • 1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations

     'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.

6. A houndfish.

Usage notes

• In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog but the sense remains the same.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)

1. (transitive) To persistently harass.
2. (transitive) To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
   • 1897, Andrew Lang, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (page 162)

     We both thought we saw what had the appearance to be a fox, and hounded the dogs at it, but they would not pursue it.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *h?naz.

Noun

hound (plural hounds)

1. (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
2. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Anagrams

• Duhon, Hudon, hundo, no duh

Middle English

Alternative forms

• honde, hounde, hund, hunde, hond, hownd, hownde, hwond

Etymology

From Old English hund

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?nd/, /hund/

Noun

hound (plural houndes or hounden)

1. dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)
   1. A pet dog; a dog kept for companionship.
   2. A hunting or sporting dog; a hound.
   3. (specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.
2. A strong term of abuse, especially used against enemies of one's religion
3. (rare) A heraldic portrayal of a dog.
4. (rare) The forces of evil; the infernal army.
5. (rare) Sirius (star)

Usage notes

The general word for "dog" is hound; dogge is vaguely derogatory and has a sense of "mongrel" or "cur".

Derived terms

• hound fysch
• hounden
• houndesberye
• houndestonge

Descendants

• English: hound
  • Northumbrian: hoond, hund
• Scots: hoond, hund

References

• “h?und, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-11.