Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who gathers nuts.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who gathers nuts.
- n. informal An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.
- n. A person who is obsessed with something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A gatherer of nuts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad
Etymologies
- From nut + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think just saying Hitler was a nutter is an oversimplification - it makes the most sense to think of him as a talented amateur who tried to micromanage.”
“And I would use the word "nutter" - not of Edwin, obviously.”
“Like, the kind of nutters that make us wonder whether the spirit said nutter is channeling (no really, as in: "My book is the Memoir of Gwynyfynyyynn, Princess of the Lost Underwater Kingdom of Mu, As Dictated Through the Willing Medium of My Person") is TOTALLY WASTED (OMG that's kind of an awesome book idea, is it not?”
“An individual who shuns this, especially in politics is more than likely to be labelled a nutter not that we no not have any, or derided by fellow pollies or the media as stoopid and uncultured.”
“She's a mild variant of religious nutter, which is inevitable on the Republican side pandering to the "faith-based community" being de rigueur.”
“Mervyn King vs eurozone: A tale of two banks Bank of England Governor Mervyn King coined the term "inflation nutter", but his euro-zone counterparts are the ones living up to the label...”
“A senior journalist at the time, who dealt with Cameron and clashed with Green routinely, says: "David Cameron was working for a complete raging nutter, which is never easy.”
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“The only thing worse than a nutter is a long-winded nutter, and seeing how much Levi seems love his own writing and voice, he definitely fits into the latter category.”
“Just what Neil Brook, a 33-year-old Greater Manchester resident, meant to call Josef Witkowski remains unclear, but at the time the text was sent Brook accidentally called him a "nutter," according to CNET News.”
“Glen Beck is a "nutter" and he could have given hundreds of examples-but then he would have had to give examples on Keith Olbermann and would have come up empty, same on Alan Grayson which would have been a problem for his credibility as a writer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nutter’.
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 292 more... -
O Canada
Words known to Canadians. These may not be understood by other North Americans, eh?
zamboni, poutine, touque, zed, inukshuk, noseeum, timbits, Alberta clipper, beer parlour, bonspiel, CANDU, chesterfield and 35 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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This list is like butter
peanut butter, almond butter, butter of antimony, mineral butter, butter of arsenic, soy nut butter, apple butter, cocoa butter, butter bean, butter clam, butterfly, cacao butter and 72 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 889 more...
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Favourite Words
sanguine, irk, pith, venerate, anomaly, reprobate, ethereal, antediluvian, obfuscate, wistful, plethora, absinthe and 108 more...
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thou varlet!
insults that roll trippingly off the tongue
varlet, addlepated, knucklehead, schmuck, ignoramus, bedlamite, nincompoop, nitwit, knave, bungler, blockhead, galoot and 91 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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Australianisms
humbug, cobber, larrikin, banging the gums, stone the crows, grog, mate, crook, bullshit artist, fair dinkum, the real McCoy, pre copernican ob... and 8 more...
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polysyllabary
high dudgeon, plumb, scarify, scabrous, zero-sum game, grind, sesquipedaliophobia, scraffito, shekel, luthier, baffle, conflate and 80 more...
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Awaydays (2009)
Words from a 2009 'Awaydays' film.
catch up, beaut, swill, ponce, buck, bevvy, la, divvy, baddie, noose, deffo, mooch around and 36 more...
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rule Britannia!
git, twee, yonks, reckon, manky, flat, cinema, motorbike, swot, dodgy, wonky, nutter and 1 more...
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"Crazy" and its synonyms
crazy, mad, batty, bonkers, barmy, nuts, nutty, nutter, nutcase, insane, maniac, lunatic and 6 more...
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