nut-cut

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English

Etymology

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Adjective

nut-cut (not comparable)

  1. (Anglo-Indian, archaic) roguish; mischievous
    • 1975, Bhupal Singh, A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction, page 82:
      She is supposed to travel in purdah, but at the jokes of the 'nut-cut' policewallah she discards her veil and is pleased to be addressed as 'a Moon of Paradise, a Disturber of Integrity'. Does she represent Indian womanhood?

Noun

nut-cut

  1. (Anglo-Indian, archaic) A roguish, mischievous person.
    • 1842, The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia, volume 38:
      The cornet said: "The Begum has been asking about you; she says you look very young; quite a chokra (boy), and have a very gureeb (quiet) look, though, she dares to say, you are a bit of a nut-cut (roguish fellow) for all that."

References

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as adjective)