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Synonyms for nut

Most common

mad man fruit cake wing-nut crank junky egg balanus

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Crackpot — A crazy person

crackpot informal, wing-nut, fruit cake, mad man, crank, kook, lunatic, weirdo, screwball, looney, live one informal, eccentric, nut-bar, nutbag, nutter dated, nutbar slang

2. Freak

freak, addict, junky, junkie slang

3. Ball — senses related to male genitalia. A testicle, often used in the plural form

ball, egg, testicle, glans, semen, testis, nard, orchis, nads slang, bollock vulgar slang UK IE

4. Coconut — the head

coconut, noodle, bonce

Verb

1. Bust a nut — to orgasm; to ejaculate

cum, jizz, spoof AU NZ, bust a nut vulgar slang, blow a nut vulgar slang

2. Butt — to hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt

butt, loaf

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The head.

  2. n. 2

    A crazy person.

    He was driving his car like a nut.

  3. v. 1

    To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

  4. v. 2

    To orgasm; to ejaculate.

Forms

Plural
nuts → crackpots, wing-nuts, cranks, kooks…
Past participle
nutted
e.g. nutted → jizzed, spoofed, butted, loafed…

Example sentences

  • crank Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour.
  • junky I hate to break it to you but Yanni is a junky.
  • egg If the universe is a cosmic egg, then who laid it?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
nutsteady
cranksteady
junkyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

2 letters
en1
3 letters
egg1, cum1
4 letters
head1, ball1, butt1, loaf1, jizz, kook1, nard1, nads
5 letters
stone1, freak1, crank1, semen2, spoof1, junky2, glans, bonce
6 letters
addict2, noodle2, weirdo2, junkie2, looney2, nutter2, testis, orchis, nutbag, nutbar
7 letters
coconut3, lunatic3, bollock, balanus
8 letters
testicle3, crackpot2
9 letters
eccentric3, screwball2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (semen2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

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