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say it: nuht
nut is a noun and verb meaning "usually large hard-shelled seed". It carries 8 recorded senses.
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
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
“she kicked him in the balls and got away”
gather nuts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.