Definitions for Nutting

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Nutting nut·ting

Spelling: [nuht-ing]

IPA: /ˈnʌt ɪŋ/

Nutting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in Nutting (ginnttu).

Definitions for Nutting

noun

1. the act of seeking or gathering nuts.
2. Wallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
3. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
4. the kernel itself.
5. Botany. a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.
6. any of various devices or ornaments resembling a nut.
7. a block, usually of metal and generally square or hexagonal, perforated with a threaded hole so that it can be screwed down on a bolt to hold together objects through which the bolt passes.
8. Slang. the head.
9. Slang. a person who is very enthusiastic about something; buff; enthusiast; devotee: an extremely concerned or zealous person:
10. Slang. a foolish, silly, or eccentric person. an insane person; psychotic.
11. Slang: Vulgar. a testis.
12. Informal. the operating expenses, usually figured weekly, of a theatrical production or other commercial enterprise; a break-even point. the total cost of producing a theatrical production or of forming and opening any new business venture.
13. Music. the ledge, as of ebony, at the upper end of the fingerboard, over which the strings pass. the movable piece at the lower end of the bow, by means of which the hairs may be slackened or tightened.
14. Printing. en (def 2).

Idioms

1. from soup to nuts. soup (def 7).
2. hard nut to crack, a problem difficult to solve; a formidable undertaking. a person difficult to know, understand, or convince. Also, tough nut to crack.
3. off one's nut, Slang. Sometimes Offensive. foolish, silly, or insane. confused; unreasonable. mistaken or wrong:

verb (used without object)

1. to seek for or gather nuts:

Origin of Nutting

First recorded in 1715-25; nut + -ing¹

Examples for Nutting

It would be no boy's play to “go a nutting” in a wood of juvia-trees.

Pale are the joys of nutting beside those of haymaking, but at least they are something.

Now, as nutting notes it is of course true that Obama added his own spending (the stimulus, mostly).

In nutting, the squirrel is not more nimble and industrious than the boy.

On the other hand, Ree was bright and chipper as a squirrel in the nutting season.

There was no picnic and nutting party the next day, owing to a downpour of rain.

Wrongs are committed, and flagrantly, but nutting commits to her premise without wavering and demands the reader do so, too.

So they concluded to turn their nutting party into a picnic.

nutting was rather a pastime, or holiday task, than a service.

He had made good his promise as to nutting and squirrel-hunting.