Synonyms of the word

nut

• n. A hard-shelled seed.
• n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
• n. (slang) A crazy person.
• n. (slang) The head.
• n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
• n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
• n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
• n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
• n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
• n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
• n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
• n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
• n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
• n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
• n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
• v. (slang) To ejaculate.
• interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

addict

• n. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
• n. An adherent or fan (of something).
• v. To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
• v. To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
• v. (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

ball

• n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
• n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
• n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
• n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
• v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
• v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
• v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
• interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
• n. A formal dance.
• n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

ballock

• n. A testicle.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

bollock

• n. (Britain, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
• v. (Britain, transitive, vulgar, slang) To reprimand severely and grossly.

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

crackpot

• n. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
• n. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
• adj. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

eccentric

• adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
• adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
• adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
• adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
• adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
• adj. Having different goals or motives.
• n. One who does not behave like others.
• n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
• n. (slang) A kook.

egg

• n. (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects…
• n. (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.
• n. (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
• n. Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
• n. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
• n. (mildly pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry,…
• n. (New Zealand, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
• n. (informal) A person, fellow.
• v. To throw eggs at.
• v. To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
• v. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently…
• v. (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite.

en

• n. English.
• n. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
• n. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).
• prep. Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms"…

enthusiast

• n. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
• n. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

freak

• n. A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
• n. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
• n. Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
• n. A hippie.
• n. A drug addict.
• n. (of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity,…
• n. (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development;…
• n. An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
• n. (informal, sometimes affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual.
• v. (transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.
• v. (transitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug.
• v. (transitive) To streak; to variegate.
• v. (intransitive) To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational…
• v. (intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
• adj. strange, weird.

fruitcake

• n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
• n. (chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
• n. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

geek

• n. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
• n. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.…
• n. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
• n. (colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream;…
• n. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
• v. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence…
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
• v. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

gonad

• n. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
• n. (slang, chiefly in the plural) The testicles.

junkie

• n. (slang, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
• n. (by extension) An enthusiast of something.

junky

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Alternative spelling of junkie.

nutcase

• n. (humorous) An eccentric or odd person.
• n. (pejorative, slang) Someone who is insane.

oddball

• n. An eccentric or unusual person.
• n. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
• adj. Exotic, not mainstream.

orchis

• n. Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid.

partisan

• n. An adherent to a party or faction.
• n. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
• n. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways…
• n. (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an…
• adj. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
• adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable…
• adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
• n. (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in…
• n. (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

partizan

• n. Alternative spelling of partisan.
• n. (obsolete) A weapon of the 16^th and 17^th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade,…

screwball

• n. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting…
• n. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
• adj. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

seed

• n. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
• n. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• n. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
• n. (uncountable) Semen.
• n. (countable) A precursor.
• n. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the…
• n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• n. Race; generation; birth.
• v. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• v. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• v. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
• v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
• v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see.

testicle

• n. The male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones,…

testis

• n. (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
• n. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.