Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nuts
IPA transcription: [n'ʌts]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round_the_bend, around_the_bend, wacky, whacky
    Meaning: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
Usage examples
  • "Does he eat nuts like his cousins?" asked Peter Rabbit.
  • Why, to me it is what a bag full of nuts must be to a squirrel.
  • He climbs low trees for fruit and nuts, but prefers to stay on the ground.
  • Press in plates and sprinkle well with minced almonds, or any kind of nuts will do.
  • To learn to rub up cocoa nuts, and to polish glass floors, and to be taught cooking by guinea pigs!
  • By-and-by they reached a man who was grinding stones to powder in his hands, as if they had been nuts.
  • So she was given three large needles, a plough-wheel, and three nuts, which she was to take great care of.
  • Let bake and fill with chopped apples, raisins and chopped nuts, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.
  • "Does it live in a tree and eat nuts?" she asked, hoping that the use of the adjective "large" might be an exaggeration.
  • I have little storerooms down there too, in which I put seeds, berries and nuts. Then when I do wake up I have plenty to eat."