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nut-cut

nut-cut adjective: roguish; mischievous.

Adjective

nut-cut (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Roguish; mischievous.
    • She is supposed to travel in purdah, but at the jokes of the 'nut-cut' policewallah she discards her veil and is pleased to be addressed as 'a Moon of Paradise, a Disturber of Integrity'. Does she represent Indian womanhood?1975, Bhupal Singh, A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction, page 82

Noun

nut-cut

  1. (archaic) A roguish, mischievous person.
    • The cornet said: "The Begum has been asking about you; she says you look very young; quite a chokra (boy), and have a very gureeb (quiet) look, though, she dares to say, you are a bit of a nut-cut (roguish fellow) for all that."1842, The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia, volume 38

Questions about nut-cut

What does nut-cut mean?
Nut-cut means roguish; mischievous.
What part of speech is nut-cut?
Nut-cut can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nut-cut in the dictionary

  1. nut-bars
  2. nut-brown
  3. nut-brown butter
  4. nut-case
  5. nut-cases
  6. nut-cut
  7. nut-cutting time
  8. nut-grass
  9. nut-grasses
  10. nut-head
  11. nut-heads

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