]ē, ]i adjective
( -er/-est )
Etymology: nut (I) + -y, adjective suffix
1. : having or producing nuts
the pine … letting fall its ripe nutty cones — Cyril Connolly
2.
a. : nuts 1
most sixteen-year-olds are nutty about cars
b. : crackbrained , eccentric ; also : mentally unbalanced
the projects in progress that summer seemed fairly nutty — Bruce Bliven b.1916
the cranks who send nutty letters to editors — C.W.Morton
all as nutty as fruitcakes — Nancy Hale
3. : full of a pleasant zest : stimulating
the fine nutty flavor of American politics — D.C.Coyle
his thoughts, many of them thin, diffuse, abstract, others nutty … phrased in a rare flowing antique style — V.W.Brooks
4. Britain : spruce in appearance
5. : having a flavor like that of nuts
poured a fine old nutty sherry
a strip of rich nutty blubber — Rudyard Kipling