Verb

(head)

Gathering nuts. (Often as in "to go a-nutting" or "to go nutting".)

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, year=1575 , year_published= , author= , by= , title=Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists citation , original= , chapter= , isbn= , publisher=William How for Richard Ihones , location=London , editor=John Stephen Farmer , volume=Fourth Series , page=171 , passage=I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe. }}

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, year=1978 , year_published= , author=Edwin Way Teale , by= , title=A walk through the year citation , original= , chapter= , isbn= 0396076211 , publisher=Dodd, Mead , location= , editor= , volume= , page=238 , passage=We are going a-nutting . }}

(rare) Gaining favor or subjugating oneself.

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, year= 1789 , year_published= 1800 , author= George Parker , by= , title= Life's painter of variegated characters in public and private life , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=hi0CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA179 , original= , chapter= 16 , isbn= , edition= 2 , publisher= , location= , editor= , volume= , page= 179 , passage= Now another drop genius is planted upon you, to turn you up , as they call it: He tells you that he is going to receive fifty pounds of an uncle, and if you will go with him he will let you have ten or twenty pounds, and meet the squire at such a house in such a street and play with him, himself and you shall go halves, if you will persuade the squire to come to this place appointed; this is called nutting of you. }}

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Thinking very hard or puzzling over something.

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, year=1951 , year_published=1966 , author=Dal Stivens , by= , title=Jimmy Brockett: portrait of a notable Australian citation , original= , chapter= , isbn= , publisher=Australasian Book Society , location= , editor= , volume= , page=140 , passage=After the party had wound up, I did a bit of hard nutting over my plans for trotting. }}

(UK, slang) Hitting deliberately with the head; headbutting.