nutty

nut +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌti/
• Rhymes: -ʌti

nutty (comparative nuttier, superlative nuttiest)

1. Containing nuts.

   This is a nutty chocolate bar.

2. Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
   • 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, →ISBN, p. 210:

     Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.

3. Barmy, crazy, mad.

   Your wife is as nutty as a fruitcake.

4. (Britain, dated) Extravagantly fashionable
   • 1932, Frank Richards, "The Complete Outsider", The Magnet

     Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.

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”.

• nuts, squirrelly
• See also Thesaurus:insane

• nutter
• nutty as a fruitcake