nutter

plural nutters

1. A person who gathers nuts.
2. IrelandUKderogatoryinformalsometimesAn eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.

   When I asked Mr Robinson why he'd made his own attempts, he said, 'It gets to be a bug. And I suppose I'm a nutter.'

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 268

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   That bird who's hanging' out with you is mad like cat piss / Like bread and jam, or a knife going with butter / Face it son, your missus is a nutter!

   2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain

   Synonyms: kook, odd duck, wacko, nut, nutcase, nutjob, nutbag, loony

1. obsoleteuncountablenut butter

   Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended.

   1907, Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The International System of Direct Medication, page 223

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   Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.

   1910, Great Britain. Local Government Board, Annual Report, number 39, page xci

1. A surname originating as an occupation.