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1. Usually large hard-shelled seed
    
2. A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
    
3. Half the width of an em
   - en
    
4. A whimsically eccentric person
   - crackpot, crank, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
    
5. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
   "a car nut"
   - addict, freak, junkie, junky
    
6. One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
   - testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, egg

1. Gather nuts

1. Egyptian goddess of the sky

Derived forms: nuts, nutted, nutting

See also: nutty

Type of: block, collect, dag [Austral, NZ], eccentric, eccentric person, Egyptian deity, enthusiast, flake, garner, gather, geek, gonad, linear measure, linear unit, male reproductive gland, oddball, partisan, partizan, pull together, seed, sex gland

Part of: em, family jewels, male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals, male reproductive system, nut and bolt, pica, pica em

Encyclopedia: Nut