nut
- noun
- /nʌt/
- Offensive
- Were they, were they, did he have bigger nuts than Mike does?
- left nut
- nut sack
- cut your nuts
Go punch somebody in the nuts and look in their eyes.
- Go punch somebody in the nuts and look in their eyes.
- Imagine being pelted in the nuts over and over again.
- The last time Frankie waxed his asshole and nut area.
- There is hot wax on my nut sacks.
- Can we there's a lot of layers to my nut sacks here extra protection.
- Like I don't won't a chef that scratches his nuts before he cooks.
- So I was like my my nuts kind of hurting.
- They call them gonads on the Internet, but really it's your nuts and it makes them smaller.
- One of them is I could stab him in the nut.
- You said if we lose, you'd lick Logan's nuts.
- Dude, imagine if you're nuts had Jingle Bells in there.
Examples
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I got some big nuts!
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Kate looked at the two of us as if we were both a little nuts, which we were.
Fiction book (1995) -
Clean up your nuts and make Santa proud of you this year.
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Boy, Lewis would go nuts if he knew I'd spent the night.
Fiction book (1995) -
Imagine being pelted in the nuts over and over again.
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- Kick him, Stubby, kick him in the nuts.
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You ain't got the nuts!
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Sometimes historical inaccuracies drive me nuts; other times they don't bother me at all.
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When we played football, I accidentally landed on my nut and it hurt a lot.
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He winced in pain after getting kicked in the nuts during the game.
Synonyms
A slang word for one of a man's testicles
An oval part in the male body that makes sperm and male hormones
One of the two male body parts that make sperm
One of the two male glands that make sperm and the hormone testosterone
A male body part that makes sperm and male hormones
One of the two male body parts that make sperm
Idioms
- Offensive
To release semen during sex and used jokingly to show extreme excitement
To use much more effort or help than needed to do a small task
- Informal
To use far more force or effort than needed for a small task
Compounds
- Indian
A seed chewed with betel leaves and lime to make you feel more awake, often in South and Southeast Asia
Two metal pieces, a bolt and a matching nut, that hold parts together by screwing
A large nut you can eat with a hard brown shell and creamy white inside from South America
- Specialized
A shrub that attaches to hemlock roots and has small green flowers and soft fruits
- Specialized
A large nut from a palm that gives oil and has a hard shell carved like ivory
A thick cooking oil from the nuts of a cohune palm that people also use to make soap
- Specialized
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree that contains caffeine and is used to flavor drinks
A fragrant black seed from the tonka bean tree used like vanilla in food and perfume
- Specialized
A hard brown nut from a South American palm used for carving and instead of ivory
A sweet moist loaf that has chopped dates and nuts, often eaten as a snack or dessert
A plant from Europe with small edible tubers that people eat and use to add flavor
- Indian
A seed from a palm tree chewed with betel leaves and lime in South and Southeast Asia
A medium-sized tree from southern Europe with a wide top that makes edible seeds like small almonds
A liquid from the nuts of a tropical tree that people use for cooking and for skin and hair
A tropical tree that produces large brown nuts containing caffeine used to make cola drinks
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree used to help people feel more awake and flavor cola
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas with edible seeds and short needles
- UK
A large brown nut from an African tree that contains caffeine and gives cola flavor
- Specialized
A small metal piece with six flat sides that screws onto a bolt to hold things together
A South American palm tree with no visible trunk that produces hard white nuts used for carving
- Jargon
A strong metal part that holds a helicopter's rotor to its shaft and whose failure can cause a crash
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nut as slang for a testicle comes from the simple image that testicles look like small round 'nuts', so people began to use the word that way. So when people say being hit in the nuts they mean a painful hit to the male genitals.