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Friday, September 9, 2011

DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES.



  • nut [countable]
  • 1

    food

    a dry brown fruit inside a hard shell, that grows on a tree:
  • a pine nut
  • roasted nuts
  • We were sitting round the fire cracking nuts (=opening them).

  • 2

    tool

    a small piece of metal with a hole through the middle which is screwed onto a bolt to fasten things together:
  • Use a wrench to loosen the nut.
  • 3

    crazy person

    informal someone who is crazy or behaves strangely:
  • My dad is such a nut.
  • What are you, some kind of nut?
  • 4

     golf/opera etc nut

    informal someone who is very interested in golf etc[↪ fanatic]:
  • You don't have to be a sports nut to enjoy skiing.
  • 5

    sex organ

     nuts

     [plural] informal a man's testicles
  • 6

     the nuts and bolts of something

    informal the practical details of a subject or job:
  • the nuts and bolts of government
  • 7

     tough/hard nut

    informal someone who is difficult to deal with:
  • He may have softened a bit in his old age but he's still a tough nut.
  • 8

     a hard/tough nut to crack

    a difficult problem or situation:
  • Celtic have lost only once this season and will be a tough nut to crack.
  • 9

     be off your nut

    British English spoken informal to be crazy:
  • You must be off your nut!
  • 10

     do your nut

    British English spoken to become very angry or worried:
  • I didn't get home till three - my mum did her nut!
  • 11

    head

    British English spoken old-fashioned your head or brain
  • somebody's nut
  • Oh come on, use your nut!

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