nut – English noun declension

English noun forms of nut

Noun: nut
Singularnut
Pluralnuts

Sample Sentences

  • There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
  • As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail. [1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing, page 95:]
  • Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head. [1891, James Main Dixon, Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, page 226:]
  • Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed. [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:]
  • He was driving his car like a nut.
  • Which one of you nuts has got any guts? [1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):]
  • a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
  • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring …. [1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323]
  • [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...] [1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54:]
  • GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis. [1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:]
  • In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis. [1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest:]
  • In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, or nut of the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease. [1965, Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers, page 23:]
  • I kicked him in the nuts.
  • As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose." [2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:]
  • He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
  • […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […] [2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:]
  • $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big. [2025 August 6, “Got a Nut”, in South Park, season 27, episode 2, spoken by Mr. Mackey:]
  • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.” [1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 11:]
  • When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged. [2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing, page 88:]
  • nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
  • I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house.
  • dough-nut
  • ginger nut

Etymology

1. From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
2. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt. See: Middle English Nouns 'note', Old English Nouns 'hnutu', Latin Nouns 'nux', Dutch Nouns 'noot', German Nouns 'Nuss', Danish Nouns 'nød', Swedish Nouns 'nöt'.

Verbs referencing "nut"

Latin Nouns nux, German Nouns Nuss, Icelandic Nouns hnot, Irish Nouns cnó.