Hud vs. Nut — What's the Difference?

A huck or hull, as of a nut.

An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.

A huck or hull, as of a nut.

The usually edible seed of such a fruit.

The United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965

Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.

A crazy or eccentric person.

An enthusiast; a buff

(Informal) A difficult endeavor or problem

(Slang) The human head.

A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass.

A device at the lower end of the bow for a stringed instrument, used for tightening the hairs.

A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw.

The cost of launching a business venture.

The operating expenses of a theater, theatrical production, or similar enterprise

Vulgar Slang A testicle.

To gather or hunt for nuts.

Vulgar Slang To ejaculate.

Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

(hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.

(slang) The head. 19

(slang) A crazy person.

(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

An extravagantly fashionable young man.

The glans structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris.

A testicle.

Semen, ejaculate.

Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.

Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: nut straight, nut flush, and nut full house. Compare t=the best possible hand available.

(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.

(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

(archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.

(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

To orgasm; to ejaculate.

(slang) To hit in the testicles.

(slang) To defeat thoroughly.

No.

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of 1st Bolt.

The tumbler of a gunlock.

A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Testicles.

To gather nuts.

Usually large hard-shelled seed

Egyptian goddess of the sky

A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

Half the width of an em

A whimsically eccentric person

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction;

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;

Gather nuts