nuthouse
13
9.9
- noun
- /ˈnʌthaʊs/
- Offensive
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manicomio
- After being diagnosed with a severe mental illness, he spent some time in a nuthouse for treatment.
- back to the nuthouse
- inmates in a nuthouse
- place is a nuthouse
Examples
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It seems he broke out of the nuthouse about three weeks ago.
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"I'm getting out of this nuthouse tomorrow."
Fiction book (1991) -
" After a while, they dropped him into a nuthouse and forgot about him.
Fiction book (1995) -
Congress will now be less of a nuthouse and more of a house for the American people.
Blog text (10) -
Am I living in a nuthouse, folks?
Blog text (4) -
Nobody called the cops to have the guy taken back to the nuthouse.
Fiction book (1998) -
What do we hope to accomplish in this nuthouse of a country?
Blog text (14) -
She's stuck in the nuthouse for the rest of her life.
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It is not a nuthouse or a funny farm.
Fiction book (1995) -
We call it the nuthouse or loony bin to show we have a sense of humor about it.
Synonyms
26
8.0
A very noisy, chaotic place often used to describe a mental hospital or busy shop
4
9.2
A noisy place where many people shout and act in a confused way
1
9.9
A hospital where people with mental illness lived and got treatment in the past
How Offensive
- Slur
18
9.9
- Offensive
26
8.0
- Offensive
13
9.9
- Archaic
64
7.5
- Archaic
38
2.8
19
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nuthouse comes from two simple parts: nut, a rude word for someone who is 'crazy', and house, meaning 'a place'. It was used to call a mental hospital a 'house for nuts', which is why the word now sounds insulting and is considered offensive when talking about mental health.