NUTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nuts mean? 

• NUTS (adjective)
  The adjective NUTS has 1 sense:

1. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

  Familiarity information: NUTS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Synonyms:

fruity; whacky; wacky; round the bend; nutty; nuts; loopy; loony; loco; kooky; kookie; haywire; around the bend; dotty; daft; crackers; cracked; buggy; bonkers; batty; bats; barmy; balmy

Context example:

it used to drive my husband balmy

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 Context examples 

She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Peanut butter and tree nuts were not associated with stroke risk.

(Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated with Lower Risk of Heart Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The nuts are quite ripe now, said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine enrolled 48 participants aged 4 to 15 years with confirmed allergy to multiple foods, including milk, egg, wheat, soy, sesame seeds, peanut or tree nuts.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

The way nuts are processed also impacts their ME value.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Officials also noted that people ate more processed meats and did not consume enough nuts, seeds or milk.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The oil extracted from the nuts of Gevuina avellana.

(Chilean Hazelnut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

“Pig-nuts!” repeated Merry, in a scream.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)