Nut vs Freak - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nut and freak

is that nut is a hard-shelled seed while freak is a man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.

As verbs the difference between nut and freak

is that nut is to hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt while freak is to make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.

As an adjective freak is

strange, weird.

nut

English

(wikipedia nut)

Noun

(en noun)

A hard-shelled seed.

There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

* 1998 , Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[http://books.google.com/books?id=lPYWVti6GR0C&pg=PA95&dq=bolt+%22nut+into%22&hl=en&ei=FPAWTuXGOIm08QPkl5j8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bolt%20%22nut%20into%22&f=false]

As the bolt tightens into the nut', it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and '''nut''' by setting the ' nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

(slang) A crazy person.

He was driving his car like a nut .

(slang) The head.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.}}

(US, slang) Financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running.

(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

* 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:

My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

(US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

(musical instruments, lutherie) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s.

* 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:

‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut', are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a ' Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].

(vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.

I kicked him in the nuts .

(vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.

An extreme enthusiast.

a fashion nut

a gun nut

a sailing nut

(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

* 2005 , Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88

When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.

(poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.

a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush

The tumbler of a gunlock.

(Knight)

(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Synonyms

* (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads

Derived terms

* coconut * groundnut * hard nut to crack * hazelnut * monkeynut * peanut * nutbeam * nutbag * nutcase * nutter * nutcracker * nutdriver * nutmeat * nutmeg * nut roast * nutshell * off one's nut * sweet as a nut * walnut

Verb

(nutt)

(UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

* 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England

One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...

(slang) To ejaculate (semen ).

Anagrams

* ----

freak

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) freke, .

Noun

(en noun)

A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.

A fellow; a petulant, young man.

Etymology 2

1560, "sudden change of mind, whim", of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

Someone or something that is markedly unusual.

A hippie.

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source) , first = Paul A. , last = Eschholz , title = Freak compounds for 'argot freaks' , journal = American Speech , volume = 44 , issue = 4 , url = , page = 306-07 , passage = When long-haired, outlandishly dressed, drug-using hippies pilgrimaged to Haight-Ashbury in the early 1960s, they were quickly dubbed freaks'''''; the pejorative appellation was both obvious and intended. It was not long before '''''freak''''' had become practically synonymous with ''hippie''. It seems, however, that with the acceptance of long hair, the appearance and popularity of some rather bizarre fashions, and the emphasis placed upon "doing one's own thing," '''''freak is no longer burdened with all of its former derogatory associations. Instead ... the word is beginning to acquire a quality which is favorable, glamorous, and somehow even admirable. }}

A drug addict.

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source) , first = Paul A. , last = Eschholz , title = Freak compounds for "argot freaks" , journal = American Speech , volume = 44 , issue = 4 , url = , page = 306-07 , passage = Smith and Sturges [June 1969] note in their study of the San Francisco drug scene that freak means "anyone addicted to drugs." }}

(of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.

(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).

An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1968 , first = Fred , last = Davis , coauthors = Laura Munoz , title = Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies , journal = Journal of Health and Social Behavior , volume = 9 , issue = 2 , url = , page = 156-64 , passage = Anyone ... who seems "hung up" on some idea, activity or interactional disposition, might be called a "freak ." }}

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source) , first = Paul A. , last = Eschholz , title = Freak compounds for "argot freaks" , journal = American Speech , volume = 44 , issue = 4 , url = , page = 306-07 , passage = Presently ... college students ... use freak to denote any kind of enthusiast. }}

Bob's a real video-game freak . He owns every games console of the last ten years.

(informal, sometimes, affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual.

She's a freak in the sack!

Synonyms

* (sudden change) whim * (sudden change) caprice

Derived terms

* fly the freak flag * freak accident * freak flag * freak of nature * freakishly * freaky

External links

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Verb

(en verb)

To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance

* 1994 , James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story , (Alyson Publishing), page 107

But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.

To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug

* 1992 , Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia , (Ronin Publishing), page 56

To streak; to variegate

* 1930 , Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books , (Literary Criticism), page 20

* Thomson

Freaked with many a mingled hue.

To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.

To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure

* Bulgarian: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)

Derived terms

* freak out

Adjective

(-)

strange, weird

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=April 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=A freak goal gave Forest the lead when a clearance by keeper John Ruddy bounced off Nathan Tyson and flew in.}} * Bulgarian: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)