核心畫面
Start with the thing you eat: a small kernel sealed inside a hard shell — a walnut, a . Two things about it travel into the other meanings: the shape (a small, hard, round little body) and the toughness (a shell you have to crack to get in). From the shape comes the metal nut and slang for a head; from the 'hard to crack' comes the tough problem and the tough person; and a separate playful streak gives the 'crazy person / fanatic' senses.
先從能吃的那個入手：一顆小小的果仁，封在硬殼裡——核桃、榛果都是。它有兩個特徵帶進了其他意思：一是「形狀」（小小、硬…更多收起
先從能吃的那個入手：一顆小小的果仁，封在硬殼裡——核桃、榛果都是。它有兩個特徵帶進了其他意思：一是「形狀」（小小、硬硬、圓圓的一顆），二是「難打開」（要敲開殼才進得去）。從形狀延伸出金屬螺帽和俚語的「腦袋」；從「難敲開」延伸出難解的問題和難對付的人；另外有一條更俏皮的支線，給出「怪人／狂熱者」這些意思。原始詞典資料30 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nutname
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.
nutnoun詞源 1/nʌt/
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foodlifestyleAny of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
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biologybotanyfoodAny of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
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A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
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slangThe head.
- Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
- Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
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slangA crazy person.
- He was driving his car like a nut.
- Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
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An extreme enthusiast.
- a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
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datedslangAn extravagantly fashionable young man.
- ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….
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archaicanatomymedicinesciencesSenses related to male genitalia.
- [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
- GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
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vulgarslanganatomymedicinesciencesSenses related to male genitalia.
- I kicked him in the nuts.
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vulgarslanganatomymedicinesciencesSenses related to male genitalia.
- As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
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vulgarslanganatomymedicinesciencesSenses related to male genitalia.
- He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
- […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]
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slangMonthly expense to keep a venture running.
- $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.
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slangThe amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
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slangA stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
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artscraftsentertainmentOn stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
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slangmediapublishingtypographyEn, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
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climbinghobbieslifestyleA shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
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card-gamespokerThe best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
- I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house.
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engineeringfirearmsgovernmentThe tumbler of a gunlock.
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nauticaltransportA projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
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A small rounded cake or cookie.
- dough-nut
- ginger nut
nutverb詞源 1/nʌt/
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To gather nuts.
- I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
- […] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
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slangTo hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
- The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.
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vulgarslangTo orgasm; to ejaculate.
- I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
- Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
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slangTo hit in the testicles.
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slangTo defeat thoroughly.
nutintj詞源 3/nʌt/
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No.
- Did you like them boys? I goes. Nut. She shook her hair. Neither? Nut. Right townies.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。