nerts
English
Etymology
Alteration of nuts to avoid vulgar nuts (“testicles”)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ts
Adjective
nerts (comparative more nerts, superlative most nerts)
- (slang, euphemistic) Crazy; nuts.
- 1928, Joseph Patrick McEvoy, Grosset and Dunlap present Show girl, page 47:
- "You'd be plumb nerts" says he, "to think of it."
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Derived terms
- nerd (possible)
Interjection
nerts
- (slang, euphemistic) Nuts! Expression of dismay.
- 1933 August 19, “GIRL GOLFER TELLS OF BESTING PRINCE; Beatrice Gottlieb Returns With Trophies of Victory From British Heir”, in New York Times:
- FOUND HIM 'TERRIBLY NICE' She Wonders What He Thought When She Said, 'Oh, Nerts!' After a Bad Shot.
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Anagrams
- 'rents, Ernst, Snert, rents, snert, stern, terns
Dutch
Alternative forms
- nertz (superseded)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Nerz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɛrts/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: nerts
- Rhymes: -ɛrts
- Rhymes: -ɛrts
Noun
nerts m (plural nertsen, diminutive nertsje n)
- European mink, Mustela lutreola
Noun
nerts n (uncountable)
- the pelt of a mink
Anagrams
- ernst, snert