nutso

Crazy, insane.

Adjective

  1. Crazy, insane.
    • "You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases." - 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN:
    • "It's a bit scary if you have a difficult boss, and it's out-and-out frightening if you have a completely nutso, maladjusted, irrational, or disturbed boss." - 2000, Robert Bacal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing...
    • "I was wondering if you had any crazy nutso guy stalking you, or something." - 2005, G. R. Kirby, Sow the Storm:
  2. Fraught or out of control.
    • How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas. - 2005, Phyllis Hollenbeck, Sacred...
    • I put my hand to my chest—my heart was going nutso. - 2010, Alison Seay, Your Mom's a Vampire!, page 1:
    • A nutso relationship is no joke, and no baby should be exposed to that. - 2013, Tracy Moore, Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises, →ISBN, page 114:
  3. Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.
    • Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today. - 2001, Kathryn North, Proud Mari, →ISBN, page 7:
    • I'm nutso about AnnRice, R.L. Stine, Dean Koontz. - 2002, Pamela Hayes, The Lie, →ISBN:
    • My dad wants to send heirloom tomato seeds there. He's nutso about tomatoes. - 2011, Laird Foster, The Lux Proofs, →ISBN, page 287:
  4. Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.
    • Forget the mechanical, materlial, solid model of communication, bring in the invisible but very real web rings. Internet, hacking and so on; puerile conversations of chat pages, insane obsessions with nutso things. -...
    • Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness. - 2008, Becky Garrison, The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, →ISBN, page 55:
    • This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours. - 2009, Sally John, Gary Smalley, A Time to Surrender, →ISBN, page 30:

Origin

Etymology tree English nuts English -o English nutso From nuts + -o.

Forms

more nutso most nutso nutzo

Adverb

  1. Madly; extremely or obsessively.
    • I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man! - 2012, Susan Donovan, He Loves Lucy, →ISBN:
  2. In a crazy manner.
    • I'm working at the ink-jet machine running a job...then I hear a weird noise I but I can't really tell what it is over the sound of the machine right.. .then I think I hear a whimper...all of a sudden my step mom bursts...
    • In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla. - 2014, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars, →ISBN:

Forms

more nutso most nutso nutzo

Noun

  1. A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic.
    • You know, some computer nerd rapist killer nutso builds a fantasy around her, crashes a party whereshe's supposed to be, she laughs himoff, says she'd rather be fuckin' her girlfriends than a pimply little freak-- -...
    • Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso. - 2012, A. J. Swoboda, Messy: God Likes It That Way, →ISBN, page 143:
    • Why give even one minute to this head-meddling nutso? - 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 417:
  2. Craziness; insanity.
    • I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso. - 2012, Harlan Ellison, An Edge in My Voice, →ISBN:
    • I knew she was a crazy bitch, but this is a whole new level of nutso. - 2014, S.P. Durnin, Keep Your Crowbar Handy, →ISBN:

Forms

nutsos nutzo