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
   • 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, David S. Cohen, Krysten Connon, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, →ISBN
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
   • 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, Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault, Carl Barks: Conversations, →ISBN, page 35
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
   • 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.1927, George Stephen Baker, The Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion
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