What's the difference between nitter and nutter?

Nitter


Definition:

  • (n.) The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

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Nutter


Definition:

  • (n.) A gatherer of nuts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Obama could stop bending over backwards to appease Republican "nutters" (as Vince Cable calls them) and pitch an argument directly to voters.
  • (2) He sets about building a side in his own image, spending a club record £245,000 on “horrible in-your-face nutter” Andy Morrison to lead the defence.
  • (3) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
  • (4) The nutters and Brussels piss-artists are under lock and key.
  • (5) He claimed some of its supporters were fruitcakes and nutters, the phrase Cameron first used in 2006 , but has subsequently not repeated for fear of being seen to be insulting potential Tory supporters.
  • (6) "Some of the reporting – my position was grossly misrepresented – gave ammunition to the nutters out there," she says.
  • (7) It looks like there are some Yank nutters out there who are a lot more prepared for it all to go tits-up than I was that day.
  • (8) Here is Fisher a few weeks ago: “When people like me … enter the fray on marriage we now expect to be tagged ‘ultra-conservative’, ‘tedious imbecile’, ‘delusional nutter’, ‘evangelical clap-trapper’ and even ‘nauseating piece of filth’ not just in the anti-social media but even in the mainstream.
  • (9) I cannot wait to join Democrats across the country to celebrate our shared values, lay out a Democratic vision for the future, and support our nominee.” “The city of Philadelphia is excited and honored to be selected as the host city for the 2016 Democratic national convention,” Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter said in a statement.
  • (10) And, unsurprisingly, many of them have decided to give Ukip a free pass: “So what if that Farage has a few friends who are nutters,” they say.
  • (11) By reporting that he had a dozen ball-point pens in his breast pocket, I had allegedly implied that he was some kind of nutter.
  • (12) She told Sky News on Thursday: "We all have a responsibility, including the media, not to give airtime to extremist voices – idiots and nutters who speak for no one but themselves.
  • (13) It was an amazingly powerful moment that I think turned out just right,” Nutter said flatly.
  • (14) The cake display at Tribeca Bakery proves impossible to walk past, especially when the heavens open, so I spend a delicious hour in the window seat, watching giant waves and catching glimpses of two nutters on surfboards out in the water.
  • (15) Even United players had concerns, Lee Sharpe summing them up by blurting: “Yeah, right, the bloke’s a total nutter.” But Ferguson, under pressure to deliver the title in his seventh year in charge, erred on the side of adventure.
  • (16) One problem with this theory is that the Social Democrat's have ruled out a deal with their left-wing friends ( or 'nutters', as Open Europe puts it ).
  • (17) Ryanair has a bad environmental reputation, largely because its boss, Michael O'Leary, is fond of taking crude pot-shots at environmentalists, who he dubs " eco-nutters ".
  • (18) David Cameron, who once branded the party's supporters "fruitcakes, nutters and closet racists", has since called for them to return to the Conservatives if they wish to curb immigration and see a referendum on EU membership.
  • (19) Weale also argued that the BoE's monetary policy committee should resist acting like "inflation nutters", and use its new, more flexible mandate on inflation targeting wisely: The correct thing for policymakers to do would be to accept a modest degree of entrenchment of raised inflation expectations as a price worth paying for a smoother output path.
  • (20) February 12, 2015 Nutter earlier had pitched his city’s historic civic legacy as reason for its selection.

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