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nut head

nut head is the alternative form of nuthead.

nut head is the alternative form of nut-head.

Meaning of nuthead

Noun

nuthead (plural nutheads)

  1. A silly or crazy person; kook.
    • 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.1997, Johnny Payne, Kentuckiana, →ISBN, page 208
  2. A stupid person; fool; idiot.
    • Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!1993, Vivien Alcock, Othergran, →ISBN, page 12
  3. Outer porition of a nut.
    • 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.1908, The Master Painter - Volume 13, page 12
  4. A head made out of a nut.
    • Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead.2004, Loralyn Radcliffe, Creative Crafts for Clever Kids: Exciting Projects from Everyday Stuff, →ISBN

Meaning of nut-head

Noun

nut-head (plural nut-heads)

  1. The outer portion of a nut (as opposed to the threads inside).
    • The boards we use are attached to the permanent stone copings by bolts and nuts 4 feet apart ; iron bands, which are used to strengthen the boards, afford firm hold for the nut-heads.1881, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 271
  2. A head (for a doll, puppet, etc.) made out of a nut.
    • Speaking of nut-heads reminds me of the shrunken head trophies which head-hunters sell as souvenirs in the interior of Ecuador and of a specimen I later saw in La Paz.1914, Gulian Lansing Morrill, To Hell and Back: My Trip to South America, page 20
  3. Various species of weed found in New South Wales, Australia, including Epaltes australis and Epaltes cunninghamii
    • Although dense stands of tall nut-heads are sometimes present after flooding, the plant more commonly occurs as scattered individuals.2011, Geoffrey McIver Cunningham, Plants of Western New South Wales, →ISBN, page 685
  4. Kook.
    • They were tactful toward me, considerate of my feelings, and usually greeted me with encouraging remarks like, "Ain't you folks gone bankropt yit?" or "They's been some real nut-heads drift through here in my time but you birds take the cake."1962, Harry Allen Smith, To Hell in a Handbasket, page 155
  5. Idiot.
    • Addressing this cavalier Western attitude, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera warned "self-righteous moralists informed by hindsight" not to ask how anyone could be so gullible. "Labelling these people stupid nut-heads will not do," he wrote in the Monitor.1999, Culture Wars - Volume 19, page 36

Forms of nut head

pluralnut heads

Questions about nut head

What is nut head the alternative form of?
Nut head is the alternative form of nuthead.

Words near nut head in the dictionary

  1. nut driver
  2. nut drivers
  3. nut flush
  4. nut flushes
  5. nut full house
  6. nut head
  7. nut heads
  8. nut house
  9. nut houses
  10. nut hugger
  11. nut huggers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nut head (page history and authors); nuthead (page history and authors); nut-head (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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