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11do one's nut — verb To become stridently angry, especially from worry. Mum did her nut after we stayed out all night without calling her. Syn: blow ones top, have a fit, throw a fit …
12do one's nut — Vrb phrs. To be very angry, to throw a tantrum, to get emotionally upset. E.g. The work was piling up, he couldn t do it all by himself but the boss was doing his nut …
13off one's nut — adj mad, crazy. These phrases are all elabo rations of the well established colloquial ism, off one s head (heard since the mid 19th century). The terms are some times extended to mean intoxicated by drugs or drink, more usually denoted by… …
14off\ one's\ nut — See: off one s head …
15nut — /nʌt / (say nut) noun 1. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. 2. the kernel itself. 3. Botany a hard, indehiscent, one seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn. 4. any of various devices or… …
16nut — nutlike, adj. /nut/, n., v., nutted, nutting. n. 1. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. 2. the kernel itself. 3. Bot. a hard, indehiscent, one seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn. 4.… …
17nut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. kernel, stone, nutmeat; seed, core; slang, eccentric, crank, crackpot (sl.), kook (sl.). See food, insanity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A dry fruit] Syn. seed, kernel, stone, achene, caryopsis, utricle;… …
18nut — [OE] Nut is a member of a restricted family of Indo European ‘nut’ words, present only in the Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, that were derived ultimately from the Indo European base *knu , denoting ‘lump’. Latin nux (source of French… …
19nut — noun 1》 a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. ↘the hard kernel of such a fruit. 2》 a small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing on to …
20nut — [OE] Nut is a member of a restricted family of Indo European ‘nut’ words, present only in the Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, that were derived ultimately from the Indo European base *knu , denoting ‘lump’. Latin nux (source of French… …
