NUTANT

PRONUNCIATION: (NOO/NYOO-tuhnt)

MEANING: adjective: Drooping; nodding.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nutare (to nod repeatedly), frequentative of -nuere (to nod), from numen (nod of the head, command, divine will). Earliest documented use: 1751.
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NUT-AUNT - my mother's crazy sister

NUITANT - like the end of the soirée

NUT-ANTE - fee to play in the squirrels' poker game