nutty

From nut +‎ -y.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌti/

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• Rhymes: -ʌti
• Hyphenation: nut‧ty

nutty (comparative nuttier, superlative nuttiest)

1. Containing nuts.

   This is a nutty chocolate bar.

2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
   • 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:

     Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a pleasantly nutty flavor.

3. (slang) Barmy, crazy, mad.

   Synonyms: nuts, squirrelly; see also Thesaurus:insane

   Your wife is as nutty as a fruitcake.

4. (British, dated) Extravagantly fashionable
   • 1932, Frank Richards, “The Complete Outsider”, in The Magnet:

     Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.

In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

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