nuthead
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noun
A silly or crazy person; kook.
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.
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.”
A stupid person; fool; idiot.
Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!
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.
Alternative form of nut-head.
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.
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.
Alternative form of nut-head.
Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead.
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3If 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 mailboxe
WiktionaryAs 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 everywhe
Wiktionary“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!”
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