What's the difference between nutter and nutty?

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.

Nutty


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in nuts.
  • (a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increase the heat under the syrup and cook, without stirring, until it turns a rich, nutty brown.
  • (2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
  • (3) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
  • (4) His colleagues tease him, telling him they're for thinktanks, not politicians, and that "people will think you're a sort of nutty professor".
  • (5) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
  • (6) Worse was the nutty suggestion that the press call Fox News’s rabidly rightwing host, Sean Hannity, a Trump supporter, for confirmation.
  • (7) The dish tasted fine – the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour and gave the quiche an extra crunch – but it still made my stomach turn.
  • (8) About Chile: Having finished second in South American qualifying under the stewardship of the pigstick nutty Marcelo Bielso, Chile favour a 3-3-1-3 formation, with one of two playmakers (usually Matias Fernandez) positioned behind three strikers ( un enganche y tres punta ) on an all-out attacking side.
  • (9) 8.06pm BST Christine is making a nutty, locally sourced loaf to go with a locally sourced cheese.
  • (10) Amaranth stuffed mushrooms with za’atar and pine nuts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yotam Ottolenghi’s amaranth stuffed mushrooms: the za’atar in the nutty topping brings a tart note to proceedings.
  • (11) ‘Oh my God, look at Lee now, isn’t she hysterical, she’s so nutty.
  • (12) "It forced a break and sent you a bit nutty for a year."
  • (13) Rahim, the son of Algerian-born parents, grew up in the eastern town of Belfort, famous for the nutty Comté cheese.
  • (14) Similarly, the Daily Mail splashed with "Murder police quiz 'nutty professor' with a blue rinse" and the Daily Mirror told its 1.2 million readers: "Jo suspect is Peeping Tom".
  • (15) Haldane replies that: "One man's nuttiness is another man's animal spirits."
  • (16) In this absolutely nutty system, in which tax can only be explained as a punishment for failing to get rich enough to avoid it, insult is heaped upon injury as judges then characterise the “UK taxpayer” as a special class of person, all themselves in full-time, well-paid employment.
  • (17) When two young women, hardly able to speak for coy giggles, approach our table for autographs and a photo, my reflex is to wonder whether some nutty rule about image rights will get in the way; Joey just puts down his fish-finger sandwich, smiles sweetly and asks: "Is it Jemma with a J?"
  • (18) But despite it all, the match that directly followed Maradona’s downfall was a stone-cold World Cup classic: Romania versus Argentina, a nutty end-to-end speed-rush of top-drawer footballing brilliance.
  • (19) Even Ford would have struggled to make such a line trip off the tongue, and it’s around this time that one is reminded Rogue One has been penned by the screenwriters of After Earth and Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps.
  • (20) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.

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