The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nut \Nut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Nutting.] To gather nuts.
Nutting \Nut"ting\, n. The act of gathering nuts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of gathering nuts," 1723, from nut (n.).
Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) An outing to gather nuts. vb. 1 (present participle of nut English) 2 Gathering nuts. (Often as in "to go a-nutting" or "to go nutting".)
WordNet
n. usually large hard-shelled seed
Egyptian goddess of the sky
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
half the width of an em [syn: en]
a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut case, nutcase, fruitcake, screwball]
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, freak, junkie, junky]
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, egg]
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Wikipedia
Nutting may refer to:
- The action of gathering nuts
- A slang term for ejaculation
Usage examples of "nutting".
It would be like dear old times of primrose hunting, blue-bell gathering, maying, and nutting down at Redcross before the cares and troubles of the world had taken hold of the girls.
Little did Betty guess that bright October morning, when she and Moppet went forth bent on a nutting excursion, that a courier was even now speeding on his way whose coming would change the tide of her whole existence.