nutter

noun
/ˈnʌtə/UK

Etymology

From Middle English nutter, notere, equivalent to nut + -er.

  1. inherited from nutter

Definitions

  1. A person who gathers nuts.

  2. An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.

    • That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter!
    • When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.'
  3. nut butter

    • Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended.
    • Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A surname originating as an occupation.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA