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Nutting

Nutting

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A last name used by some families
  • proper noun
: Nutting
  • There has been a second spotting of the Nutting's flycatcher in Patagonia Lake State Park.
  • Krouse and Nutting

Examples

  • D.W. Nutting... you have it so right!

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  • ♪ Paul Bowles lived in Tangier for over 50 years, and Sherry nutting was part of his inner circle near the end of his life.

  • How can Mr. Nutting seriously look at his investment and be happy with how it is being treated?

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  • "They offered something that we couldn't live with, so here we are," said Robert Nutting, Galena.

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  • Warn Dr. Nutting.

  • TAFA lists Nutting Associates' Table Tennis as a 1973 game.

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  • Liz Nutting*

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  • The chart on the right, from Rex Nutting, shows what's actually going on: total US debt to GDP was rising alarmingly until the crisis, but it has been falling impressively since then.

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  • I took Bob Nutting's word when he told me for a Sept. 28 column that it's obvious the status quo is not an acceptable option and that he'd undertake a no-job-is-safe organizational review.

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  • Have you ever heard the name Nutting in your family tree?

Surface Forms

Nutting main

Etymology

Nutting likely comes from the English word nut and the name ending -ing, which once meant 'people of' or 'living near'. It probably began as a name for people who gathered nuts or lived by nut trees, so the family name remembers that old job or place.