Meanings
nounnutball (plural nutballs)
plural nutballs · alternative nut ball
- informalA crazy person.
Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often.
1990 February 23, Glenn Garvin, “Postcards From a Lost War”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
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.
2008 March 22, Timothy Egan, “Donner Party Democrats”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*hnuts
- Proto-West Germanic*hnut
- Old Englishhnutu
- Middle Englishnote
- Englishnut
- Englishnutball
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APA
nutball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutball
MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nutball,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutball.
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