nuthatch

Related to nuthatch: Red breasted nuthatch, White breasted Nuthatch

nuthatch

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 nuthatch 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 nuthatch if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.

nuthouse

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 nuthouse 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 nuthouse if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nuthouse

and nut factory and nut-foundry and nuthatch
n. an insane asylum. The teacher spent three years in the nuthouse. When did you get out of the nut factory?

nuthatch

verb
See nuthouse
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • foundry
  • nut factory
  • nut-foundry
  • nuthouse
  • nuttery
  • saltine
  • queen
  • Queens
  • nutter
  • nutcase
References in periodicals archive
The red-breasted nuthatch is a handsome little package that's easy to ID.
It's like they are acting on behalf of all nuthatches, sparrows and chickadees who wouldn't stand a chance with a merlin or a kestrel.
I have been noticing more reports of nuthatches in gardens recently, which is not too surprising as, unlike many other species, their numbers are increasing.
Headquartered in Bangalore, Nuthatch is a first generation business nest and into Food and Nutrition products (Dry Blending only).
Pygmy nuthatch was the most common species reported by Haldeman et al.
A black eye stripe, blue-gray back, and rusty underparts separate this small nuthatch from others.
Although some early nesters (e.g., bluebird spp., nuthatch spp., Northern Flicker) may have initiated nests before this date, most nest initiations take place after this date (Tallman et al., 2002) and we were limited by scheduling of our undergraduate field assistants and training time and thus, 20 May was the earliest possible starting date.
To date, I've had great spotted woodpecker, nuthatch, goldfinch, siskin and even a bullfinch on my bird table.
"To illustrate the point, the Nuthatch, which was initially sighted around the confines of Bretton Park, flourished and could be seen plastering mud in woodlands around the Huddersfield region.
When Nuttie Nuthatch woke up from her nap, she saw Grandpa John nearby, and he was creeping beak-first down a tree.
After him comes Grundy (Peter Walwyn) at 12-1, with Nuthatch (John Oxx) and Sea Break
to find junco and titmouse and nuthatch and cardinal and a new bird feeding above the devastation, the evening grosbeak, like the storm, just passing through.
Concept Leisure, which also runs The Nuthatch cocktail bars in Middlesbrough and Stockton, was the company behind therestaurant.
BEFORE I started working for The Lancashire Wildlife Trust, I had never seen a nuthatch - I had probably never noticed one.
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