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nuts

  [nuhts] Slang.
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–interjection
1. Also, nerts, nertz. (used to express disgust, defiance, disapproval, despair).
–adjective
2. insane; crazy.
—Idiom
3. be nuts about,
a. to be extremely or excessively enthusiastic about; be fervent in one's admiration of: Both of them are nuts about chamber music.
b. to be deeply in love with: He's nuts about his new girlfriend.
Origin:
1900–05; pl. of nut
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Slang Dictionary
nuts

and nutz
  1. mod.
    crazy. (There is no difference in pronunciation between nuts and nutz.) : That whole idea is just nuts!
  2. exclam.
    No!; I don't believe you!; I don't care! (Usually Nuts!) : Oh, nuts! I forgot my wallet.
  3. n.
    the testicles. (Usually objectionable.) : Chuck got kneed in the nuts in a football game.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

nuts  (adj.)
"crazy," 1846, from earlier be nutts upon "be very fond of" (1785), which is possibly from nuts (n., pl.) "any source of pleasure" (1617), from nut (q.v.). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to "head" (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut "be insane," 1860). Nut "crazy person, crank" is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958). Connection with the slang "testicle" sense has tended to nudge it toward taboo. "On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball." ["New Yorker," Dec. 23, 1950] "Please eliminate the expression 'nuts to you' from Egbert's speech." [Request from the Hays Office regarding the script of "The Bank Dick," 1940] This desire for avoidance accounts for the euphemism nerts (c.1925). Nutty "crazy" is first attested 1898.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Science Dictionary
nut   (nŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
A dry, indehiscent simple fruit consisting of one seed surrounded by a hard and thick pericarp (fruit wall). The seed does not adhere to the pericarp but is connected to it by the funiculus. A nut is similar to an achene but larger. Acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, and hazelnuts are true nuts. Informally, other edible seeds or dry fruits enclosed in a hard or leathery shell are also called nuts, though they are not true nuts. For instance, an almond kernel is actually the seed of a drupe. Its familiar whitish shell is an endocarp found within the greenish fruit of the almond tree. Peanuts are actually individual seeds from a seed pod called a legume.
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Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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