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Definition: Nutcase |
NutcaseNoun1. A whimsically eccentric person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NutcaseSynonyms: crackpot (n), crank (n), fruitcake (n), nut (n), nut case (n), screwball (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The only consequence of all this will be, that whenever I open a nice Bordeaux, there will be the distant, distasteful memory of a nutcase who tried to kill me because I allowed her to kiss me on the cheek under false pretenses (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nutcase (1980) | |
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| "Nutcase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nutcase" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nutcase | 5 |
letter nutcase | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nutcase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | cvok (hobnail, loon, pin, stud), blázen (fool, freak, gander, lunatic, nut). (various references) | |
German | spinner (crank, madcaps, nut, oddball, screwball, screwballUS, silkmoth, silkworm moth, spinner). (various references) | |
Manx | ommidan (crackpot, cretin, dope, featherbrain, fool, imbecile, loony, moron, mug, twit, widgeon), lhag-hushtagh, fer y veggan cheeaylley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utcasenay.(various references) | |
Russian | псих (jitterbug, madman, nutter, psycho). (various references) | |
Swedish | knäppskalle, knäppis. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nutcase": nutcases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acutes, ascent, cantus, centas, cuesta, enacts, secant, stance, uncase, unseat, usance. | |
-2 letters: acnes, acute, antes, aunts, canes, canst, cants, caste, cates, cause, cents, centu, cesta, cutes, enact, etnas, nates, neats, sauce, saute, scant, scena, scent, scuta, scute, stane, taces, tunas, tunes, unset, usnea. | |
-3 letters: aces, acne, acts, anes, ante, ants, anus, ates, aunt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: centaurs, nautches, nutcases, recusant, unchaste, uncrates. | |
+2 letters: acutances, acuteness, canulates, ceanothus, chanteuse, chaunters, consulate, cotqueans, courantes, courtesan, cutaneous, encaustic, evacuants, incubates, nectarous, nucleates, oceanauts, outdances, outrances, recusants, staunched, stauncher, staunches, subjacent, substance, succinate, tenacious, transduce, truancies, truncates, tunicates, uncreates, underacts, unlatches, unscathed, unstacked, unteaches. | |
+3 letters: abducentes, acanthuses, austenitic, calentures, candlenuts, centaureas, centauries, chanteuses, coetaneous, conjugates, consulates, consummate, courantoes, courtesans, crustacean, culminates, educations, encaustics, enucleates, enunciates, euthanasic, executants, exultances, fecundates, gluconates, headcounts, humectants, inculcates, inculpates, incurvates, inoculates, inosculate, lacustrine, lunchmeats, nucleators, nuthatches, paunchiest, petulances, punctuates, quittances, raconteurs, raunchiest, reductants, scattergun, staunchest, subcabinet, subcentral, substances, subtenancy, succinates, sustenance, tenaculums, transduced, transducer, transduces, uncanniest, unchastely, uncleanest, unclearest, undercoats, utterances. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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