Nuthead
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A silly or crazy person; kook.
"If she ever referred to the events, she laughed them off as silly kid stuff, and called the ex-boyfriend a nuthead, the way you speak of someone who drove around in high school smacking metal mailboxes with a baseball bat."
- 2 A stupid person; fool; idiot.
"Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!"
- 3 Alternative form of nut-head.; Outer porition of a nut.
"When you are striping gears and come to a nuthead run right over it, with fine lines on its edges, or around the nut, as may be preferred."
- 4 Alternative form of nut-head.; A head made out of a nut.
"Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead."
Example
More examples"If she ever referred to the events, she laughed them off as silly kid stuff, and called the ex-boyfriend a nuthead, the way you speak of someone who drove around in high school smacking metal mailboxes with a baseball bat."
Etymology
From nut + head.
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