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Nutty vs Netty - What's the difference?

nutty | netty |

As adjectives the difference between nutty and netty

is that nutty is containing nuts while netty is like a net, or network; netted.

As a noun netty is

(geordie) toilet.

nutty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Containing nuts
  • Reminiscent of nuts
  • * 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:
    • Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.
  • Barmy, crazy, mad.

    • Usage notes

    In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

    Synonyms

    * nuts, squirrelly * See also

    Related terms

    * nutter * nutty as a fruitcake

    netty

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a net, or network; netted.

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly a corruption of (necessity) or (necessary); (etyl) . Alternatively it may be derived from (etyl) gabinetti.

    Alternative forms

    * nettie

    Noun

    (netties)
  • (Geordie) toilet
    • References
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