Crossword clues for nutter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nutter \Nut"ter\, n. A gatherer of nuts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who gathers nuts. 2 (context informal English) An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person. 3 A person who is obsessed with something.
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Nutter may mean:
- A chiefly British English slang word for a mentally ill person, or for someone who is fearless, tough and cruel. (In American English slang, the term is simply "nut".)
- A nut gatherer, one who gathers nuts.
Nutter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Nutter, English guitarist
- Albert Nutter (1913-1996), English cricketer
- Alice Nutter (writer) (born 1961), singer and percussionist
- Alice Nutter (died 1612), one of the Pendle witches, hanged for murder by witchcraft
- Buzz Nutter (1931-2008), National Football League center
- Dave Nutter (born 1955), American politician from Virginia
- David Nutter, film director
- Donald Grant Nutter (1915-1962), American politician
- Geoffrey Nutter, American poet
- Harold Nutter (born 1923), 6th Bishop of Fredericton and 16th Metropolitan of Canada
- Janet Nutter (born 1953), Canadian diver
- John Nutter (born 1982), English footballer
- Michael Nutter, American politician, mayor of Philadelphia
- Rik Van Nutter (1930-2005), Dutch-American actor
- Robert Nutter (c. 1550-1600), beatified English Catholic martyr
- Tommy Nutter (1943-1992), Welsh fashion designer
- G. Warren Nutter (1923-1979), American economist
- Zoe Dell Nutter, American aviator and model
Usage examples of "nutter".
My people put their lives on the line every time this nutter has a night on the town.
It appeared that some of these girls had been at one of my public appearances shortly before they dropped out of sight and she wondered if some nutter was targeting my fans.
How do you think my boss would react if I let you be taken hostage by some nutter with a knife?
I looked at Wayne, half expecting him to swear me in as a temporary agent the way the FBI do to kids in movies when they know the whereabouts of some nutter the feds want to shoot on sight.
Rathmines and I had come to the conclusion that he was just another nutter living out a fantasy.
Your man must have been a complete asshole, totally possessive, a bit like that nutter Trevor in Eastenders.
Perhaps I had hurt his feelings by thinking it even possible that Grandfather Nutter was an Indian warrior.
While we were getting into the double-seated wagon which Grandfather Nutter had provided, I took the opportunity of asking after the health of the pony.
Grandfather Nutter, who knew what a boy loved, if ever a grandfather did.
Having introduced the reader to the Nutter House, a presentation to the Nutter family naturally follows.
Grandfather Nutter was a hale, cheery old gentleman, as straight and as bald as an arrow.
Captain Nutter had charge of a slight earthwork just outside the mouth of the river.
Her bright honest face comes to me out from the past, the light and life of the Nutter House when I was a boy at Rivermouth.
Captain Nutter bought me a little two-wheeled cart, which she drew quite nicely, after kicking out the dasher and breaking the shafts once or twice.
It was not Grandfather Nutter, nor Miss Abigail, nor Kitty Collins, though they all helped to compose it.