A nut is a seed or fruit of a tree.
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a pedal nut is another word for idiot I should know I made the word up.
A nut that is used to secure another nut is called a jam nut.
Another word that can be used to mean a person is a nut case or crazy is "lunatic."
bauple nut
A jam nut locks another nut from backing off.
Yes, it is an old Provencale dialect word for nut. The original was the Latin word for nut, which is nux.
An idiom is a phrase that cannot be defined literally. Nut is a word, not an idiom. It is a Germanic word.
In modern English the word "nut" is a noun (fruit of a nut tree, or the companion to a bolt), a word for a thing.The verb 'to nut' (gather nuts) is virtually archaic except for the activity "nutting" (gerund).
It is an Algonquian word meaning nut. There is also a Cree word 'Pakan' which means hard shelled nut
In Brazil, they call it "castanha-do-pará", which means "Pará state nut"
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