nut
/nʌt/ noun B2- Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. · There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- The head.
- A crazy person. · He was driving his car like a nut.
- An extreme enthusiast. · a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
- A testicle, often used in the plural form. · I kicked him in the nuts.
- Semen, ejaculate, cum.
Plural nuts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And the Scarecrow found a tree full of nuts and filled Dorothy’s basket with them, so that she would not be hungry for a long time.
She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts.
His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket.
This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit.
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