Nuthead

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A stupid person; fool; idiot.

    "Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!"

  3. 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. 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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