Noun: welshnut
| Singular | welshnut |
| Plural | welshnuts |
Sample Sentences
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[…] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree. [1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:]
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A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be. [1912, Country Life, volume 31, page 313:]
Nouns inflected like welshnut
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut. See: Middle English Nouns '
walsh-note', Old English Nouns '
wealhhnutu'.