nutter
nounnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈnʌtə//
- Scotland//ˈnʌtər//
A person who gathers nuts.
noun
- 1
A person who gathers nuts.
- 2
informalAn eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.
That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter!
When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.'
Etymology
From Middle English nutter, notere, equivalent to nut + -er.
noun
- 1
obsoletenut butter
Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended.
Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.
Etymology
Blend of nut + butter.
Forms
- plural
- nutters
nutter · A person who gathers nuts.
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