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/nʌt/
nounverbinterjection

Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

    “There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.”

  2. A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.

  3. An extreme enthusiast.

    “a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut”

  4. On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

Verb 1 meaning

  1. To gather nuts.

Interjection 1 meaning

  1. No.

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”).

NUT at a glance

NUT has 3 letters and scores 3 points in Scrabble (N 1 + U 1 + T 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,611 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

Rhymes with nut

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  • PEANUT8
  • COCONUT11
  • WALNUT9
  • CHESTNUT13
  • DONUT6
  • DOUGHNUT13
  • HAZELNUT20
  • BUTTERNUT11
  • KNUT8
  • GROUNDNUT11
  • WINGNUT11
  • COCOANUT12

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