nutting
- noun
- /ˈnʌtɪŋ/
- My family takes a trip every fall for some nutting in the nearby forest, collecting a variety of nuts.
Examples
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During the autumn, we enjoyed nutting by gathering acorns and walnuts from the trees.
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- Thanks for the nutting and the titties and all but, got to go bitch, duty calls.
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At the height of the mast, or nutting, season, a big oak will drop up to 10,000 acorns a day, many of which are avidly eaten by does that gather under the trees.
Academic text (1991) -
As a child, I loved the tradition of nutting, eagerly searching for the biggest chestnuts in the park.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
nutting = nut (transparent) = nut + ing
The word is a regular -ing noun built directly from the verb 'nut', so its meaning is straightforwardly recoverable.
Etymology
Nutting is simply the word nut plus -ing, naming the action of collecting nuts. Think of people in autumn picking walnuts and hazelnuts under trees, so nutting means 'gathering nuts' from trees and bushes.