nuthead
English
Alternative forms
- nut-head
- nut head
Etymology
nut + head
Noun
nuthead (plural nutheads)
- A silly or crazy person; kook.
- 1997, Johnny Payne, Kentuckiana, →ISBN, page 208:
- If she ever referred to the events, she laughed them off as silly kid stuff, and called the ex-boyfriend a nuthead, the way you speak of someone who drove around in high school smacking metal mailboxes with a baseball bat.
- 2015, David S. Cohen & Krysten Connon, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, →ISBN:
- As Joanne Hartzell, a longtime clinic administrator in a South Atlantic state, stated pithily in explaining why she does not worry, “We're a target with some, but there are nutheads out there everywhere.”
- 2015, Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World, →ISBN:
- “The people at the British Museum told us afterwards,” Einarsson recalled, “that they get so many letters every day from nutheads! They considered us nutheads!”
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- A stupid person; fool; idiot.
- 1993, Vivien Alcock, Othergran, →ISBN, page 12:
- Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!
- 2003, Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault, Carl Barks: Conversations, →ISBN, page 35:
- Hey, I wasn't kidding myself that I was writing for a bunch of stupid little nutheads. I was writing for kids who could understand stuff as well as I could — at least, I felt they were that way.
- 2003, Gilbert Foster Crane & Andrea McDougall, I Had Vera: An Autobiography of a Working Man, →ISBN, page 36:
- You called all of us nutheads. I can do that arithmetic as good as you can.
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- Alternative form of nut-head
- Outer porition of a nut.
- 1908, The Master Painter - Volume 13, page 12:
- When you are striping gears and come to a nuthead run right over it, with fine lines on its edges, or around the nut, as may be preferred.
- 1927, George Stephen Baker, The Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion:
- Model experiments have been made with two pairs of propellers, differing only in the fact that in one, excrescences representing nutheads were left on the boss.
- 1930, Wilfred Jones, How the derrick works, page 36:
- The steelworker is straddling the cross beam and is screwing on the nutheads by hand before finally tightening them with his wrench.
- 1972 May, Wayne Heyman, “How It Works: The Marine Battery”, in MotorBoating, volume 129, number 5, page 161:
- When disconnecting or replacing clamp bolts, use only the correct size open-end wrench. Pliers should never be used for loosening or tightening nuts; they could round or otherwise damage the nutheads.
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- A head made out of a nut.
- 2004, Loralyn Radcliffe, Creative Crafts for Clever Kids: Exciting Projects from Everyday Stuff, →ISBN:
- Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead.
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- Outer porition of a nut.
Anagrams
- de-haunt, dehaunt, haunted, undeath, unhated