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Definition of Nutty
1. Adjective. Having the flavor of nuts. "A nutty sherry"
2. Adjective. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. "It used to drive my husband balmy"
Similar to: Insane
Derivative terms: Daftness, Kook, Loon
Definition of Nutty
1. a. Abounding in nuts.
Definition of Nutty
1. Adjective. Containing nuts ¹
2. Adjective. Barmy, crazy, mad. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nutty
1. silly; crazy [adj -TIER, -TIEST] : NUTTILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutty
Literary usage of Nutty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and by William Richard Cutter (1908)
"He was a farmer. and resided on High street, Hingham, near nutty Hill. In his
will, dated August 3, 1774, proved July 4, 1777, he bequeaths to wife Mary; ..."
2. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"... yet were the English agents permitted to settle a factory at Soota-nutty,
about ten miles lower, on the same river, than Hughley, in 1609; ..."
3. India Tracts by John Zephaniah Holwell (1774)
"on which a duty is levied by the Farmer are nearly the fame as in Soota
nutty 'Market ; the duties from 4 ..."
4. Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies (1883)
"nutty AUTUMN. THERE is some honeysuckle still flowering at the tops of the hedges,
where in the morning gossamer lies like a dewy net. ..."
5. Bibliotheca Somersetensis: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Single Sheets by Emanuel Green (1902)
"... the personal adventures of Jan, Tommy nutty, and others in Bridgwater and
elsewhere. (1884). Smiff, ie, AA Dowty) and Tommy nutty. 2nd edit., enlarged. ..."
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