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nut noun

  /nʊt/ , /nʌt/ , [nɐt]
  • (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
  • (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
 écrou
  • (food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
 noix, fruit à coque, fruit sec
  • (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
 couille
  • (slang) A crazy person.
 folle, fou
  • (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
 folle, fou, malade
  • (musical instruments, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
 sillet, chou

nuts adjective

  /nʌts/
  • (colloquial) Insane, mad.
 cinglé, dingue
pine nut
pignon, pigne, pignon de pin
brazil nut
noyer du Brésil, noix du Brésil
cashew nut
noix de cajou
macadamia nut
noix de macadamia
nut job
débile, taré, tarée
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
écraser une mouche avec un marteau, tuer une mouche avec un canon
betel nut
noix d’arec
tiger nut
amande de terre, noix tigrée
physic nut
pourghère
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