Home › Words › N › nutheadnutheadnuthead means A silly or crazy person; kook.EtymologyFrom nut + head.nounA silly or crazy person; kook.A stupid person; fool; idiot.e.g.“Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!” — 1993, Vivien Alcock, Othergran, →ISBN, page 12:Alternative form of nut-head.; Outer porition of a nut.e.g.“When you are striping gears and come to a nuthead run right over it, with fine lines on its edges, or around the nut, as may be preferred.” — 1908, The Master Painter - Volume 13, page 12:Alternative form of nut-head.; A head made out of a nut.e.g.“Bend a paper clip into the shape of eyeglasses; glue them to the nuthead.” — 2004, Loralyn Radcliffe, Creative Crafts for Clever Kids: Exciting Projects from Everyday Stuff, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.crazyhead 72% match — A crazy person; an eccentric. vs nuthead →dinghead 69% match — A stupid or foolish person. vs nuthead →nutcase 67% match — An eccentric or odd person. vs nuthead →fathead 67% match — An idiot; a fool. vs nuthead →kook 67% match — An eccentric, strange or crazy person. vs nuthead →nutball 66% match — A crazy person. vs nuthead →craphead 65% match — An undesirable or stupid person. vs nuthead →codshead 65% match — A stupid person; a fool. vs nuthead →