Synonym: Nut, addict, ball, ballock, bollock, crackpot, crank, egg, en, freak, fruitcake, junkie, junky, nut case, nutcase, orchis, screwball, testicle, testis. Similar words: minute, peanut, nutrient, diminutive. Meaning: [nʌt] n. 1. usually large hard-shelled seed 2. Egyptian goddess of the sky 3. a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt 4. half the width of an em 5. a whimsically eccentric person 6. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction 7. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. v. gather nuts.
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61 The woman sounds like a real nut.
62 Tax will be an even tougher nut.
63 Beverley was a tougher nut to crack.
64 They put him in with the nut cases.
65 A chocolate nut upside-down cake was the request of Teresa Ipock of Longview, Wash.
66 It is usually about 20 millimetres in diameter, with the requisite internal nut and as hard as a stone.
67 McCready had shown him how to loosen the nut connecting the water pipe to the radiator.
68 The pragmatist knows it better than the idealist. 97 excess A sledge-hammer to crack a nut.
69 I reached into the door pocket and pulled out the heavy wheel nut spanner.
70 A semi-circular wedge is moved up and down an inclined groove in an aluminium nut, with a trigger.
71 That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
72 As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut.
73 Ignore the fact that a nut may be weakened by repeated use as hammer.
74 He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
75 The incident is passed on so that, over time, the betel nut becomes a symbol of eternal regeneration and devotion.
76 Shearer, a tough nut not inclined to whinge, said his ankle was like a pudding.
77 The fitting is assembled by putting the nut over the pipe first, followed by the olive and then the fitting.
78 He changed the spanner for one the correct size and tightened the nut.
79 The room was badly ventilated, and the floor was strewn with nut shells and orange peel.
80 She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person.
81 She eats another nut, and needlessly, absently, combs her hair.
82 Remember too, that a nut going mouldy in air has room for the mould to show as fibres or a crust.
83 She eats a pistachio nut, and fastens her locket. New Year's Eve.
84 Fakhru rubbed one smooth slice with his thumb and then placed the spotted nut slice on his protruding tongue.
85 Truss-rod adjustment lives under the traditionally-situated cover above the nut, and offers full dual-action flexibility.
86 This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
87 Daytime television is a tough nut to crack. New shows have to be good enough to beat the old favorites.
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88 A lot of people think he's a complete nut, but he's actually quite harmless.
89 Their feet are an awful dream of bunions - but the buffalo's brazil nut bugle-horns can never sound reveille.
90 The betel nut lay in slices on a white dish.