nut

🇺🇸 /nʌt/ 🇬🇧 /nʌt/
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Tags TOP3000Oxford3000CEFR-B2
noun
A2

A hard-shelled seed from a tree, often eaten as food.

I like to eat a nut with my breakfast.

R

A small metal piece with a hole, used with a bolt to hold things together.

Tighten the nut to secure the parts.

R

A person's head or brain.

He hit his nut on the low door.

R

A rude word for a strange or crazy person.

That guy is a real nut.

R

A person who is very interested in a particular thing.

She is a fitness nut who exercises every day.

R

A man's private parts.

He got hit in the nut during the game.

verb
R

To hit someone hard with your head.

He tried to nut me during the fight.

translation

n. A hard-shelled seed from a tree, often eaten as food.; A small metal piece with a hole, used with a bolt to hold things together.; A person's head or brain.; A rude word for a strange or crazy person.; A person who is very interested in a particular thing.; A man's private parts.
v. To hit someone hard with your head.

Word Forms

Plural nuts
Past nutted
Progressive nutting
3rd Present nuts
Perfect nutted