Wrongs are committed, and flagrantly, but nutting commits to her premise without wavering and demands the reader do so, too.
Now, as nutting notes it is of course true that Obama added his own spending (the stimulus, mostly).
Pale are the joys of nutting beside those of haymaking, but at least they are something.
On the other hand, Ree was bright and chipper as a squirrel in the nutting season.
He had made good his promise as to nutting and squirrel-hunting.
In nutting, the squirrel is not more nimble and industrious than the boy.
It would be no boy's play to “go a nutting” in a wood of juvia-trees.
nutting was rather a pastime, or holiday task, than a service.
There was no picnic and nutting party the next day, owing to a downpour of rain.
So they concluded to turn their nutting party into a picnic.
"action of gathering nuts," 1723, from nut (n.).
"hard seed," Old English hnutu, from Proto-Germanic *khnut- (cf. Old Norse hnot, Dutch noot, Old High German hnuz, German nuß "nut"), from PIE *kneu- "nut" (cf. Latin nux; see nucleus). Sense of "testicle" is attested from 1915. Nut-brown is from c.1300 of animals; c.1500 of complexions of women.
Meaning "crazy person, crank" is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958; nut-case is from 1959); see nuts. American English slang sense of "amount of money required for something" is first recorded 1912. The nut that goes onto a bolt is first recorded 1610s (used of other small mechanical pieces since early 15c.). Nuts and bolts "fundamentals" is from 1960.
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Related Terms
gripe one's ass, off one's nut, tough nut, a tough nut to crack
[insanity sense probably fr late 1800s off one's nut, that is, head; senses 4, 5, and 6 fr the custom of taking the retaining nut from the wheel of a circus wagon, to be returned when all bills were paid]
