nut
/nʌt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more."
- "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."
- "Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head."
- "Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed."
- "He was driving his car like a nut."
- "Which one of you nuts has got any guts?"
Etymology
From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nʌt/
- British English: /nʌt/
Usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- British usage
- Dated
- Archaic
- Uncountable
- Countable
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food, Medicine.
Inflected Forms
nuts (plural)
nuts (present, singular)
nutting (participle, present)
nutted (participle, past)
nutted (past)
Not (alternative)
Nunut (alternative)
Nenet (alternative)
Nuit (alternative)