nutter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nutter
Example Sentences
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"How I presented myself - crazy, loud, being a nutter, that is who I am but I'm also sensitive," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Once dismissed as a nutter by his critics, because he confessed he talks to trees, Charles is right on time for 2022.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
“And by talking about things and saying, ‘That looks like a controlled demolition,’ I know that puts you in the nutter camp.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2019
People think I’m a tin hat-wearing nutter, sitting here guarding 3,000 tins of beans, but it’s not all-consuming.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2018
Like the police, he’d probably just think I’m a nutter, some weirdo who’s read about the case in the newspaper.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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