nutter

A person who gathers nuts.

Noun

  1. A person who gathers nuts.

    Hypernyms: gatherer hunter-gatherer

  2. An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.
    • That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter! - 2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain:
    • When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.' - 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,...

    Synonyms: kook odd duck wacko nut nutcase nutjob nutbag loony bizarro coot crackpot crank eccentric freak glaik hard case live one nutbar nutter oddball oddity odd bod odd fish queerdo

Origin

From Middle English nutter, notere, equivalent to nut + -er.

Forms

nutters

Related

nuts nutso nuttiness nutty

Derived

Mumsnutter pit nutter

Noun obsolete, uncountable

  1. nut butter
    • Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended. - 1907, Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The International System of Direct Medication, page 223:
    • Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine. -...

Origin

Blend of nut + butter.