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nut-cut en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Roguish; mischievous.
    • She is supposed to travel in purdah, but at the jokes of the 'nut-cut' policewallah she discards her veil and is pleased to be addressed as 'a Moon of Paradise, a Disturber of Integrity'. Does she represent Indian womanhood? 1975, Bhupal Singh, A Survey of Anglo-Indian Fiction, page 82:

nut-cut en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A roguish, mischievous person.
    • The cornet said: "The Begum has been asking about you; she says you look very young; quite a chokra (boy), and have a very gureeb (quiet) look, though, she dares to say, you are a bit of a nut-cut (roguish fellow) for all that." 1842, The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia, volume 38: