nutter

noun

nut·​ter ˈnə-tər 

plural nutters

British slang

: a foolish or eccentric person

also, sometimes offensive : someone who is not mentally sound

Synonyms

• eccentric
• character
• nut
• nutcase
• weirdo
• wacko
• loony
• crackpot
• kook
• loon
• crank
• fruitcake

Examples of nutter in a Sentence

rather than ostracizing them, the British seem to cherish their nutters

read conspiracy theories from some nutter on the Internet

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Other cyclists and the governing bodies of competitive cycling have all but called Landis a complete nutter. —Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2011

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

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nutter

• butter
• clutter
• cutter
• flutter
• gutter
• mutter
• putter
• rutter
• shutter
• sputter
• stutter
• utter