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Nutgall vs Nutball - What's the difference?

nutgall | nutball |

As nouns the difference between nutgall and nutball

is that nutgall is an enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite sometimes called just a gall while nutball is (informal) a crazy person.

nutgall

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia nutgall)
  • An enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite. Sometimes called just a gall.
  • * 1848 , John Hannett, Bibliopegia, or, The Art of Bookbinding in all its branches , page 65:
    • In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.

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    nutball

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nut ball

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A crazy person.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1990, date=February 23, author=Glenn Garvin, title=Postcards From a Lost War, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=Timothy Egan, title=Donner Party Democrats, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=One of their leaders had been hanging around the camp of another preacher man, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. ? a nutball like Robertson, blaming America for bringing on the horrid attack. }}

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