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nutball en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree substrateder. Proto-Germanic *hnuts Proto-West Germanic *hnut Old English hnutu Middle English note English nut English -ball English nutball From nut + -ball.

Meanings

1. (informal) A crazy person.
   • Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often. 1990 February 23, Glenn Garvin, “Postcards From a Lost War”, in Chicago Reader:
   • One of their leaders had been hanging around the camp of another preacher man, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. — a nutball like Robertson, blaming America for bringing on the horrid attack. 2008 March 22, Timothy Egan, “Donner Party Democrats”, in New York Times:

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