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Nutty vs Freaky - What's the difference?

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Nutty is a related term of freaky.


As adjectives the difference between nutty and freaky

is that nutty is containing nuts while freaky is resembling a freak.

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

    freaky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • resembling a freak
  • (slang) odd; bizarre; unusual
    • I've heard the props and costumes in this play are quite freaky .
  • (slang) scary; frightening
    • Have you met the freaky new guy who moved in next door?
  • (slang) sexually deviant
    • The things she asked me to do were too freaky for me.

    Derived terms

    * get freaky

    See also

    * get one's freak on

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