nut

Meanings

• usually large hard-shelled seed
• Egyptian goddess of the sky
• a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
• half the width of an em
• a whimsically eccentric person
• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
  • "a car nut"
• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
• gather nuts

Synonyms

addict, ball, ballock, bollock, crackpot, crank, egg, en, freak, fruitcake, junkie, junky, nut case, orchis, screwball, testicle, testis