Nutty is a yellow-green squirrel with a yellow diamond-shaped marking on his head and a large curled-up tail that moves when he is excited. Nutty has a sweet tooth: he has an addiction to sugar and anything that contains it, particularly candy. The meaning of NUTTY is having or producing nuts.

Understanding the Context

How to use nutty in a sentence. If you describe someone as nutty, you mean that their behaviour is very strange or foolish. nutty adjective [-er/-est only] (FOOD) containing or tasting of nuts: a nutty flavor (Definition of nutty from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) 1. Containing or producing nuts: nutty trees.

Key Insights

2. Having a flavor like that of nuts: The wild turkey often has a nutty taste when cooked. 3. Slang Crazy; idiotic: a nutty idea. In the sense of “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane, crazy” or “excited, enthused”, for example in the phrase “the crowd went nuts”, the other term, “the crowd went nutty”, is not used.

Final Thoughts

Definition of nutty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. NUTTY definition: abounding in or producing nuts. See examples of nutty used in a sentence.