British slang

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Recent Examples of nutter Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos. Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2025 Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023 Westwood was a real original—even a nutter in some ways. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023 Lloyd Hansen is his exit strategy, and this nutter will stop at nothing to snuff Six and steal the drive. Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 July 2022 The foie-gras fluffer-nutter certainly accomplishes that. Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018 Matt Bumpas’ work making highly creative desserts — mango-lime marshmallows, his own version of nutter-butters, blood orange semifreddo with clove caramel and orange meringue — earned him high praise as the pastry chef of Seattle’s Poppy. Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 26 July 2017 Out here in Iowa, Papist nutter Rick Santorum — now accompanied on the campaign trail by the ridiculous Duggar clan, the famous cable-television pullulators — has made this quite clear, over and over again. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2012 Other cyclists and the governing bodies of competitive cycling have all but called Landis a complete nutter. Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutter
Noun
  • For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Both towns are filled with lovable eccentrics, both treat community as a kind of moral center, and both ask us to consider what decency looks like at the local level.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Here, played by the black actress Karen Bryson, the character is all brains and sass.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At one point during NCIS' run, de Pablo's character was thought to be dead.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stir in pecans and cook, stirring often, until nuts are toasted and butter is browned, 5 to 7 minutes.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The best vitamins for nails come from eating foods like leafy greens, eggs, nuts, seeds, sweet potato, cold water fish, and more that are rich in a few key vitamins.
    Brianna Peters, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Although My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) was made in 2020, before Libs of TikTok exposed school-teacher lunacy, writer-director Caroline Vignal proves prescient about the eccentricity that goes deeper than the profession’s nutcase radicalism.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
Noun
  • For those who never got sick of watching Dunder Mifflin’s few sane employees stare exasperatedly into the camera as one of its certifiable weirdos did something unhinged, there’s a good amount of that here, too.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One does not hire Bill Skarsgård unless one is looking for a lanky, off-putting weirdo.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • At the time, de Grey was viewed as a brilliant crackpot.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Dawn rambles on, issuing crackpot theories in the background.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Not the crazy aunt/spell-casting kook who’s going to be film fans’ top Halloween costume this year.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Aster is no longer offering a twist on things that really took place but on fantasies that occurred only in the imaginations of right-wing kooks.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 July 2025

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“Nutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutter. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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