Synonyms of the word nutcase


NUTCASECRACKPOT - CRANK - ECCENTRIC - FLAKE - FRUITCAKE - GEEK - NUT - ODDBALL - SCREWBALL

nutcase

  • n. (humorous) An eccentric or odd person.
  • n. (pejorative, slang) Someone who is insane.

crackpot

  • n. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
  • n. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
  • adj. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

crank

  • adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
  • adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
  • adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
  • adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
  • n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
  • n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
  • n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  • n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
  • n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
  • n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
  • n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
  • n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
  • n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  • n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
  • n. (slang) penis.
  • v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
  • v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
  • v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

eccentric

  • adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
  • adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
  • adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
  • adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
  • adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
  • adj. Having different goals or motives.
  • n. One who does not behave like others.
  • n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
  • n. (slang) A kook.

flake

  • n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  • n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  • n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
  • n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • v. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  • n. (Britain) Dogfish.
  • n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  • n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
  • n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fruitcake

  • n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
  • n. (chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
  • n. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

geek

  • n. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
  • n. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.…
  • n. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
  • n. (colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream;…
  • n. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
  • v. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence…
  • n. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
  • v. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

nut

  • n. A hard-shelled seed.
  • n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
  • n. (slang) A crazy person.
  • n. (slang) The head.
  • n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  • n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  • n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
  • n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
  • n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  • n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
  • n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
  • n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
  • n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
  • n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
  • n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
  • n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
  • n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  • v. (slang) To ejaculate.
  • interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

oddball

  • n. An eccentric or unusual person.
  • n. (neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
  • adj. Exotic, not mainstream.

screwball

  • n. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting…
  • n. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
  • adj. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

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