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Nutty vs Putty - What's the difference?

nutty | putty |

As adjectives the difference between nutty and putty

is that nutty is containing nuts while putty is of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

As a noun putty is

a form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.

As a verb putty is

to fix something using putty.

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

    putty

    English

    (wikipedia putty)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

    • Noun

    (putties)
  • A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
  • Any of a range of similar substances.

    • Derived terms

    * putty in someone's hands

    Verb

  • to fix something using putty