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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/ [General-American], /ˈnʌt.soʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: more nutso [comparative], most nutso [superlative]
Etymology: From nuts + -o. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nuts|o}} nuts + -o Head templates: {{en-adj}} nutso (comparative more nutso, superlative most nutso)
  1. (colloquial) Crazy, insane. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adj-AUGT0d~x
  2. (colloquial) Fraught or out of control. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adj-XaNQNxhX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 22 27 5 6 6 23 7
  3. (colloquial) Obsessed; overly enthusiastic. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adj--Ns~NHi7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -o, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 22 27 5 6 6 23 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -o: 0 21 39 0 3 3 30 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 15 59 0 2 2 20 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 12 63 0 2 2 20 2
  4. (colloquial) Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adj-nL88rlCg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nutzo

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/ [General-American], /ˈnʌt.soʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: more nutso [comparative], most nutso [superlative]
Etymology: From nuts + -o. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nuts|o}} nuts + -o Head templates: {{en-adv}} nutso (comparative more nutso, superlative most nutso)
  1. (colloquial) Madly; extremely or obsessively. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adv-qMUOhhkV
  2. (colloquial) In a crazy manner. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-adv-AJj-QoAb
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nutzo

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/ [General-American], /ˈnʌt.soʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: nutsos [plural]
Etymology: From nuts + -o. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nuts|o}} nuts + -o Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nutso (countable and uncountable, plural nutsos)
  1. (colloquial, countable) A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic. Tags: colloquial, countable Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-noun-8zDSVSVl Disambiguation of People: 0 43 0 0 0 0 57 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 22 27 5 6 6 23 7
  2. (colloquial, uncountable) Craziness; insanity. Tags: colloquial, uncountable
    Sense id: en-nutso-en-noun-jbM94LUV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nutzo

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2008, Becky Garrison, The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, →ISBN, page 55:",
          "text": "Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Sally John, Gary Smalley, A Time to Surrender, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John O'Keefe, The Spread, →ISBN, page 253:",
          "text": "She made us go through this nutso warrior ceremony.",
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        }
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        "Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly."
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        "(colloquial) Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly."
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      "word": "nutzo"
    }
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          "ref": "2001, John Sandford, Easy Prey, →ISBN:",
          "text": "You know, some computer nerd rapist killer nutso builds a fantasy around her, crashes a party whereshe's supposed to be, she laughs himoff, says she'd rather be fuckin' her girlfriends than a pimply little freak--",
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          "ref": "2012, A. J. Swoboda, Messy: God Likes It That Way, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso.",
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          "ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 417:",
          "text": "Why give even one minute to this head-meddling nutso?",
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          "text": "I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso.",
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          "ref": "2014, S.P. Durnin, Keep Your Crowbar Handy, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I knew she was a crazy bitch, but this is a whole new level of nutso.",
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        "(colloquial, uncountable) Craziness; insanity."
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          "text": "I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!",
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        "Madly; extremely or obsessively."
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          "ref": "2006, Michael Amore, Loosely Based On Last Thursday, →ISBN, page 102:",
          "text": "I'm working at the ink-jet machine running a job...then I hear a weird noise I but I can't really tell what it is over the sound of the machine right.. .then I think I hear a whimper...all of a sudden my step mom bursts out from her office all nutso saying...\"where is your father, where is your father\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.",
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        }
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        "(colloquial) In a crazy manner."
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}

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