Nut
The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
The tumbler of a gunlock.
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
To gather nuts.
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Nut Quotations
I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
Mike Tyson
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
Mike Tyson
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Spurgeon
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
George H. W. Bush
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke
I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
Bill Murray
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
Jeremy Rifkin
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Nicolas Cage
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
John Millington Synge
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
Penn Jillette
I'm a history nut.
Billy Joel
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
Howard Stern
I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.
Julie London
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
Tony Randall
We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.
Mark Knopfler
They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
Ben Bradlee
Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
Ike Turner
I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.
Rick Yune
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
Joshua Slocum
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.
Vincent Kartheiser
Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
Art Garfunkel
I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!
Colin Farrell
I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
Leonard Maltin
I am not a madman or a nut.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.
Jerome Hines
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Nut Translations
nut in Dutch is moer
nut in Portuguese is noz, porca
nut in Spanish is tuerca, nuez
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