"wing nut" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-wing nut.ogg [Australia] Forms: wing nuts [plural]
Etymology: wing + nut Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wing|nut}} wing + nut Head templates: {{en-noun}} wing nut (plural wing nuts)
  1. A nut with wing-like projections to provide leverage in turning with thumb and forefinger. Synonyms: butterfly nut, thumbnut (english: some designs), wing-nut, wingnut Related terms: wingnut (english: plant) Translations (nut with wing-like projections): femella d'orelles [feminine] (Catalan), femella papallona [feminine] (Catalan), vingemøtrik [common-gender] (Danish), aletŝraŭbingo (Esperanto), siipimutteri (Finnish), lehtimutteri (Finnish), écrou à oreilles [masculine] (French), écrou papillon [masculine] (French), papillon [masculine] (French), Flügelmutter [feminine] (German), πεταλούδα (petaloúda) [feminine] (Greek), aletoskrubino (Ido), cnó eiteach [masculine] (Irish), cnó cluasach [masculine] (Irish), cro cleashagh [masculine] (Manx), барашковая га́йка (baraškovaja gájka) [feminine] (Russian), барашек (barašek) [masculine] (Russian), palomilla [feminine] (Spanish), vingmutter [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wing_nut-en-noun-fsEUw-oh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 36 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 23 34 42 Disambiguation of 'nut with wing-like projections': 85 6 9
  2. (slang, politics) One who advocates extreme measures or changes, especially if they hold or are perceived to hold far-right viewpoints; a radical or reactionary. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Politics, Conservatism Translations ((slang) one who advocates extreme measures or changes; a radical): ekstremisto (Esperanto), radikalulo (Esperanto), экстреми́ст (ekstremíst) [masculine] (Russian), радика́л (radikál) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-wing_nut-en-noun-PNDWwOnv Disambiguation of Conservatism: 27 50 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 36 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 23 34 42 Topics: government, politics Disambiguation of '(slang) one who advocates extreme measures or changes; a radical': 2 94 4
  3. (slang, Australia) Someone with large, protruding ears. Tags: Australia, slang
    Sense id: en-wing_nut-en-noun-mgz7n1rV Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 36 43 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 23 34 42

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.