nutty

From nut +‎ -y.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌti/

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• Rhymes: -ʌti
• Hyphenation: nut‧ty

nutty (comparative nuttier, superlative nuttiest)

1. Containing nuts.

   This is a nutty chocolate bar.

2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
   • 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:

     Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a pleasantly nutty flavor.

3. (slang) Barmy, crazy, mad.

   Synonyms: nuts, squirrelly; see also Thesaurus:insane

   Your wife is as nutty as a fruitcake.

4. (UK, Ireland, dated) Extravagantly fashionable.
   • 1932, Frank Richards, “The Complete Outsider”, in The Magnet:

     Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.

• In the sense of “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane, crazy” or “excited, enthused”, for example in the phrase “the crowd went nuts”, the other term, “the crowd went nutty”, is not used.

• coconutty, coco-nutty
• nutter