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nut
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)
- A hard-shelled seed.
- 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.
- (slang) A crazy person.
- Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
- (slang) The head.
- Synonyms: bonce, noodle
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (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.”
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
- (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.
- (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.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (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 [...].
- 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
- Synonyms: ball, (taboo slang) bollock, nads
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
- (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.
- 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (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.
- 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
- (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”).
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (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)
- (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
- (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- Synonyms: butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
- (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
- (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.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:
Anagrams
- NTU, Tun, tun
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [n??t]
Noun
nut (plural [please provide])
- 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)
- use, point, utility, sense
- Synonym: zin
- benefit
- Synonym: voordeel
Derived terms
- Nutsman
- nuttig
- nutteloos
Adjective
nut (comparative nutter, superlative nutst)
- (obsolete) useful
- Synonym: nuttig
Inflection
Derived terms
- onnut
Middle English
Adverb
nut
- Alternative form of not
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hnútr.
Noun
nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nuter, definite plural nutene)
- 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)
- 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
- nut
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: nöt
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nut/
Noun
nut f
- genitive plural of nuta
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??/
Interjection
nut
- (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.
Unua
Noun
nut
- Alternative form of naut
Further reading
- Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)
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pomace
English
Alternative forms
- pummace, pummice
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin pomum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?m?s/, /?p?m?s/, /-?s/
Noun
pomace (countable and uncountable, plural pomaces)
- The pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice (or a nut, etc., has been pressed to extract the oil).
- Fish scrap.
Translations
Anagrams
- PEComa, ecomap
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