Definition of nut

"nut" in the noun sense

1. nut

usually large hard-shelled seed

2. Nut

Egyptian goddess of the sky

3. nut

a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

4. en, nut

half the width of an em

5. crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball

a whimsically eccentric person

6. addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky

someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

"a golf addict"

"a car nut"

"a bodybuilding freak"

"a news junkie"

7. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

"nut" in the verb sense

1. nut

gather nuts

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Quotations for nut

Your nut is ready cracked for you. [ Proverb ]

By the husk you may guess at the nut. [ Proverb ]

You can't tell a nut till you crack it. [ Proverb ]

Come, crack me this nut, quoth Bumstead. [ Proverb ]

You are a sweet nut, if you were well cracked. [ Proverb ]

Your wind-mill is dwindled into a nut-cracker. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but sticketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
[ Spenser ]

He that is won with a nut may be lost with an apple. [ Proverb ]

There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes. [ William Shakespeare ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

nut in Scrabble®

The word nut is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 3

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nut:

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nut in Words With Friends™

The word nut is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words containing the sequence nut

Word Growth involving nut

Shorter words in nut

nu

Longer words containing nut

beechnut beechnuts

bladdernut bladdernuts

breadnut breadnuts

butternut butternuts

chestnut chestnuts

circumnutate circumnutated

circumnutate circumnutates

circumnutating

circumnutation circumnutations

circumnutatory

cobnut cobnuts

cocoanut

coconut coconuts

diminution diminutional

diminution diminutions

diminutival

diminutive diminutively

diminutive diminutiveness

diminutive diminutives

diminutivisation diminutivisations

diminutivised

diminutivises

diminutivising

diminutivization diminutivizations

diminutivize diminutivized hyperdiminutivized

diminutivize diminutivizes

diminutivizing

donut donuts

doughnut doughnutlike

doughnut doughnuts

groundnut groundnuts

hazelnut hazelnuts

locknut locknuts

minute arcminute arcminutes

minute lastminute

minute minutely

minute minuteman

minute minutemen

minute minuteness

minute minuter

minute minutes arcminutes

minute minutes minutest

minutiae

nonutilised

nonutilizable

nonutilization nonutilizations

nonutilized

nonutilizer nonutilizers

nutbutter nutbutters peanutbutters

nutbutter peanutbutter peanutbutters

nutcake nutcakes

nutcase nutcases

nutcracker nutcrackers

nuthatch nuthatches

nuthook nuthooks

nuthouse nuthouses

nutjob nutjobber nutjobbers

nutjob nutjobs

nutlet nutlets

nutlike doughnutlike

nutmeal nutmeals

nutmeat nutmeats

nutmeg nutmegs

nutpecker nutpeckers

nutpick nutpicks

nutraceutical nutraceuticals

nutribiotic nutribiotics

nutricultural

nutriculture nutricultures

nutriculturist nutriculturists

nutrient macronutrient macronutrients

nutrient micronutrient micronutrients

nutrient nutrientrich

nutrient nutrients macronutrients

nutrient nutrients micronutrients

nutrient nutrients supernutrients

nutrient phytonutrient

nutrient supernutrient supernutrients

nutrition malnutrition

nutrition nutritional nutritionally

nutrition nutritional unnutritional

nutrition nutritionist nutritionists

nutrition overnutrition overnutritions

nutrition undernutrition

nutritious nonnutritious

nutritious nutritiously

nutritious nutritiousness

nutritive nonnutritive

nuts beechnuts

nuts bladdernuts

nuts breadnuts

nuts butternuts

nuts chestnuts

nuts cobnuts

nuts coconuts

nuts donuts

nuts doughnuts

nuts groundnuts

nuts hazelnuts

nuts locknuts

nuts nutsedge nutsedges

nuts nutseed nutseeds

nuts nutshell nutshells

nuts nutsier

nuts nutsiest

nuts nutsy

nuts peanuts

nuts pinenuts

nuts thumbnuts

nuts walnuts

nuts wingnuts

nutted

nutter inutterability

nutter nutters

nutter unutterable

nutter unutterably

nutter unuttered

nuttier

nuttiest

nuttiness

nutting

nutty

nutwood

peanut peanutbutter peanutbutters

peanut peanuts

pinenut pinenuts

splitnut

sternutaries

sternutary

sternutate sternutated

sternutate sternutates

sternutating

sternutation sternutations

sternutative sternutatives

sternutator sternutatories

sternutator sternutators

sternutator sternutatory nonsternutatory

thumbnut thumbnuts

unutilisable

unutilised

unutilizable

unutilized

walnut walnuts

wingnut wingnuts