Nutty

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnÊŒti/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒti

Origin

nut + -y

Full definition of nutty

Adjective

1. Containing nuts
   This is a nutty chocolate bar.
2. Reminiscent of nuts
• 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.
3. Barmy, crazy, mad.
   Your wife is as nutty as a fruitcake.

Usage notes

In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

Synonyms

• nuts, squirrelly

Related terms

• nutter
• nutty as a fruitcake