nutter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nutter
Example Sentences
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Once dismissed as a nutter by his critics, because he confessed he talks to trees, Charles is right on time for 2022.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
"You'll think I'm a nutter but I really want to write a song about why most women like bad boys and I want to use the Diddy song," she recalled telling them.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2021
“I thought, I don’t know, that they’d cut it, because I was just another nutter off the street. But then everybody started to ring me and I thought: ‘God, this has gone a bit mad.’”
From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2019
“And by talking about things and saying, ‘That looks like a controlled demolition,’ I know that puts you in the nutter camp.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2019
“I’m certain I’ve never met you until that day in the church, but I’m also certain I was meant to meet you. Don’t think me a nutter, but it’s been prophesized.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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