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nutty

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nut·ty  (nt)
adj. nut·ti·er, nut·ti·est
1. Containing or producing nuts: nutty trees.
2. Having a flavor like that of nuts: The wild turkey often has a nutty taste when cooked.
3. Slang Crazy; idiotic: a nutty idea.

nutti·ly adv.
nutti·ness n.

nutty
Adjective
[-tier, -tiest]
1. containing or resembling nuts
2. Slang insane or eccentric
nuttiness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.nutty - having the flavor of nuts; "a nutty sherry"
tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"
2.nuttynutty - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
Translations
Spanish nutty [ˈnʌtɪ] adj [flavour] → a frutos secos;
(col) (= foolish); chalado

French nutty [ˈnʌtɪ] adj [flavour] → à la noisette;
(inf) [person] → cinglé(e)dingue

German nutty [ˈnʌtɪ] adj [flavour] → Nuss-;
(inf) [idea etc] → bekloppt

Italian nutty [ˈnʌtɪ] adjdi noce (or nocciola or mandorla etc);
(BRIT ) (col) → tocco/a, matto/a

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At that time he was spending the remains of the money left him by his aunt, and Elizabeth had hardly settled down at Brookport and got her venture under way when she found herself obliged to provide for Nutty a combination of home and sanatorium.
In the early years of this century, such a linen-weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.
An hour later the lamps blazed in Kadlu's house; snow-water was heating; the pots were beginning to simmer, and the snow was dripping from the roof, as Amoraq made ready a meal for all the village, and the boy-baby in the hood chewed at a strip of rich nutty blubber, and the hunters slowly and methodically filled themselves to the very brim with seal-meat.
 
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