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Nor did it say that campaigning against agricultural subsidies gets you called a nut.
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Nor did it say that campaigning against agricultural subsidies gets you called a nut.
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(Johnston even gave the poor guy the archetypal hobby of sexually frustrated but good and understanding husbands who've learned to sublimate like crazy --- he's a model train nut.)
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(Johnston even gave the poor guy the archetypal hobby of sexually frustrated but good and understanding husbands who've learned to sublimate like crazy --- he's a model train nut.)
Lance Mannion: 2008
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KRESLINS: It's disappointing to me that I'm being characterized as a nut.
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At least screw with this new meaning was an original entry. screw as the OED tells it has the word first showing up in English in 1404 from French, but in French the word applied not to what you might think of as a screw, but instead to the female equivalent, what I'd call a nut.
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2008
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: Jon Chait says having your worldview shaped by Ayn Rand should be a disqualifier for public office, because she's a "nut."
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010
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It also means the man was probably a bit of a gun "nut."
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Some controversy and a lot of comments and talk have been generated by the above church sign which implies that Obama is a 'nut.'
OpEdNews - Diary: Local church sign doesn't go far enough 2009
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And that's some apology, since you're now calling the very person who linked to the video you didn't bother to watch, and who called you on what (you're claiming, at least) you have * admitted* was your own failure to follow rules of journalistic ethics, a "nut."
ABC Mischaracterizes Obama's Alleged "Testy Exchange" With Reporter 2009
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