bannut
bannut noun: an English walnut.
Noun
bannut (plural bannuts)
- An English walnut.
- Wor. They picks they stones off the common, as small as bannuts (H.K.). w.Wor.¹ Sarmints is ahl like bannuts; d’reckly yŭ opens ’um, yŭ knaows w’ats in ’um.[…]se.Wor.¹ The fust time as ever I knaowed ’im wus w’en ’e wus took up fur stalin’ bannits.[…]We cannot tell how many bannuts there be, till...1898, “BANNUT, sb.”, in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P....
- Crack nuts and bannuts (walnuts), / Say the bells of St. Weonard’s.1912, Ella Mary Leather, The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire: Collected from Oral and Printed Sources, page 241
Forms of bannut
| plural | bannuts |
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Origin of bannut
From Middle English bannenote.
Questions about bannut
- What does bannut mean?
- Bannut means an English walnut.
- What part of speech is bannut?
- Bannut is a noun.
- What is the plural of bannut?
- The plural of bannut is bannuts.
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