nut-foundry
nut-foundry
old-fashioned slang A derogatory and offensive term for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum. "Nut" is a derogatory slang term meaning "a crazy person." My great aunt Lidia apparently got locked up in a nut-foundry when she was a teenager because she said she could commune with ghosts. I can't go to the police about it! They'd throw me in the nut-foundry if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
nut-foundry
verbSee nuthouse
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- nut factory
- nuthatch
- nuthouse
- foundry
- nuttery
- saltine
- queen
- Queens
- nutter
- nut case