nuthead

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English

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Etymology

From nut +‎ head.

Noun

nuthead (plural nutheads)

  1. A silly or crazy person; kook.
    • 1997, Johnny Payne, Kentuckiana, →ISBN, page 208:
      If she ever referred to the events, she laughed them off as silly kid stuff, and called the ex-boyfriend a nuthead, the way you speak of someone who drove around in high school smacking metal mailboxes with a baseball bat.
    • 2015, David S. Cohen, Krysten Connon, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, →ISBN:
      As Joanne Hartzell, a longtime clinic administrator in a South Atlantic state, stated pithily in explaining why she does not worry, “We're a target with some, but there are nutheads out there everywhere.”
    • 2015, Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World, →ISBN:
      “The people at the British Museum told us afterwards,” Einarsson recalled, “that they get so many letters every day from nutheads! They considered us nutheads!”
  2. A stupid person; fool; idiot.
    • 1993, Vivien Alcock, Othergran, →ISBN, page 12:
      Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!
    • 2003, Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault, Carl Barks: Conversations, →ISBN, page 35:
      Hey, I wasn't kidding myself that I was writing for a bunch of stupid little nutheads. I was writing for kids who could understand stuff as well as I could — at least, I felt they were that way.
    • 2003, Gilbert Foster Crane, Andrea McDougall, I Had Vera: An Autobiography of a Working Man, →ISBN, page 36:
      You called all of us nutheads. I can do that arithmetic as good as you can.
  3. Alternative form of nut-head
    1. Outer porition of a nut.
      • 1908, The Master Painter - Volume 13, page 12:
        When you are striping gears and come to a nuthead run right over it, with fine lines on its edges, or around the nut, as may be preferred.
      • 1927, George Stephen Baker, The Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion:
        Model experiments have been made with two pairs of propellers, differing only in the fact that in one, excrescences representing nutheads were left on the boss.
      • 1930, Wilfred Jones, How the derrick works, page 36:
        The steelworker is straddling the cross beam and is screwing on the nutheads by hand before finally tightening them with his wrench.
      • 1972 May, Wayne Heyman, “How It Works: The Marine Battery”, in MotorBoating, volume 129, number 5, page 161:
        When disconnecting or replacing clamp bolts, use only the correct size open-end wrench. Pliers should never be used for loosening or tightening nuts; they could round or otherwise damage the nutheads.
    2. A head made out of a nut.
      • 2004, Loralyn Radcliffe, Creative Crafts for Clever Kids: Exciting Projects from Everyday Stuff, →ISBN:
        Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead.

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