Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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Nuts to you!exclam. Go away!; Drop dead!
Well, nuts to you! You are just plain
rude! Nuts to you! I will NOT lend you
money!


nuttern. a nutty person. Sally is such a
nutter. She would forget her head if it
wasn’t screwed on. That guy is a real
nutter. Thinks he can get a cab at this hour.


nutteryn. an insane asylum; the place
where nuts are kept. (See also nut.) If
you keep acting so odd, we’ll have to put
you in a nuttery. This place is a nuttery!
I’ve never seen so many silly people.


nuttymod. silly; giddy; stupid. What a
nutty idea! That’s nutty! Mary is a
real nutty girl, but she is my best friend.


nutty as a fruitcakemod. very silly or stu-
pid. The whole idea is as nutty as a
fruitcake. Tom is as nutty as a fruitcake.
They will put him in a nuttery someday.

nut upin. to go crazy; to go nuts. I’ve
got to have a vacation soon, or I’m going
to nut up. Poor Sue nutted up and had
to take it easy for a few months.

nybble[“nIbl] n. four bits of computer
memory. (Literally, one half of a bite,i.e.,
a byte.) My program wouldn’t work just
because I had one silly little nybble wrong!
You don’t program a nybble! It’s just half
a byte.

nybble
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