Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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."