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nutil

nutil adjective: useless.

Adjective

nutil (comparative more nutil, superlative most nutil)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Useless.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Effeminate.

Forms of nutil

comparativemore nutil
superlativemost nutil

Origin of nutil

From or related to Middle English nytelen (“to struggle”). Cognate with North Frisian næteln, nöteln (“to hesitate, procrastinate, dawdle, work slowly”).

Questions about nutil

What does nutil mean?
Nutil means useless.
What part of speech is nutil?
Nutil is an adjective.

Words near nutil in the dictionary

  1. nuthouses
  2. nuths
  3. nuthugger
  4. nuthuggers
  5. Nuthurst
  6. nutil
  7. nutjob
  8. nutjobber
  9. nutjobbers
  10. nutjobbery
  11. nutjobs

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