nutsy

[nuht-see]

adjective

nutsier, nutsiest 

1. nutty.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nutsy¹

nuts + -y ¹; -sy

Example Sentences

“I know they probably don’t love the second goal, but we don’t love their second goal either. … We really competed and that was a nutsy win.”

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“There’s a nutsy little contingent that really hates my guts,” FitzGerald said.

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If you know how you’re going to vote, have determined everyone who supports the other party are “insane nutsy folks” -- or at least all but .56 percent of them -- and feel like the “country is going down the toilet” then it would be pretty hard to summon interest for daily political coverage.

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“Travel is nutsy. That’s part of the joy of it,” she says.

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“She can be the clown one moment, all nutsy crazy, and be very touching the next.”

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• frenetic 
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