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],
"links": [
[
"Madly",
"madly"
],
[
"extremely",
"extremely"
],
[
"obsessively",
"obsessively"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Madly; extremely or obsessively."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Michael Amore, Loosely Based On Last Thursday, 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\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars",
"text": "In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a crazy manner."
],
"links": [
[
"crazy",
"crazy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) In a crazy manner."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌt.soʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nutzo"
}
],
"word": "nutso"
}
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