NUT
ADJECTIVES
► LEAMING of nuts: ripe, separating easily from the husk → 1824 Sc.
NOUNS
► ACAJOU the cashew nut → 1725
► BROWN LEAMER a nut with a brown husk → 1832 Eng. dial.
► CRACK-NUT a nut-cracker → 1656
► GOODIE ► GOODY the part of a nut that you eat; the kernel of a nut → 1859 Amer. dial.
► KERNEL the ‘meat’ of a nut; the soft, often edible, part within the hard seed of a fruit → 1689 Amer. dial.
► LEAM the husk of a nut → 1854 Eng. dial.
► LEAMER a nut fully ripe → 1832 Eng. dial.
► NEGRO TOE the Brazil nut → 1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
► NICK BUTTS ► NICKY BUTTS nuts (edible) → 1998 UK rhyming sl.
► NIGGER NUT the Brazil nut → 1986 Amer. dial., derogatory
► NIGGERTOE the Brazil nut → 1896 Amer. dial., derogatory
► NUTBEAM a nut tree → 1318 obs.
► NUTCRACK an implement for cracking nutshells → 1892 Amer. dial.
► NUT-HOUSING a nutshell → c1475 obs.
► PEELING the shell or hull of a nut; the pod of a legume → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SHACK 1. nuts and acorns that have fallen to the ground → 1828 Amer. dial.
2. the husk or shell of a nut → 1903 Amer. dial.
► SHUCK the hard shell of a nut, esp. of a walnut or hickory nut → 1837 Amer.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CRACK-FENCER a street-seller of nuts → M19 sl.
► NUTBOY a boy who gathers nuts → 1653 obs.
VERBS
► LEAM to free nuts from their husks → 1788 Eng. dial.
► SHACK to remove the shell of a nut → 1903 Amer. dial.
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