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発音

• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ts

形容詞

nerts (comparative more nerts, superlative most nerts)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Crazy; nuts.
   • 1928, Joseph Patrick McEvoy, Grosset and Dunlap present Show girl, page 47:

     "You'd be plumb nerts" says he, "to think of it."

   • 1935, Elsie Carlisle, “Sweet Flossie Farmer (the Lovely Snake Charmer)”:

     But sweet Flossie Farmer, the lovely snake charmer/Was nerts for a snake in the grass.

派生語

• nerd (possibly)

間投詞

nerts

1. (slang, euphemistic) Nuts! Expression of dismay.
   • 1933 August 19, “GIRL GOLFER TELLS OF BESTING PRINCE; Beatrice Gottlieb Returns With Trophies of Victory From British Heir”, in New York Times:

     FOUND HIM 'TERRIBLY NICE' She Wonders What He Thought When She Said, 'Oh, Nerts!' After a Bad Shot.

名詞

nerts (uncountable)

1. A fast-paced card game played with multiple decks.

アナグラム

• 'rents, Ernst, Snert, Stern, rents, snert, stern, stern-, terns