wing nut
- n any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia
- n a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning
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- Weekly Poem: Charles Hood Reads 'Skype'
By Charles Hood We are arguing about if there are pets in Heaven and my partner in the miracle that is marriage assures me that more people at any moment on earth are dreaming than are talking, cooking, making love, or riding bikes. Than are beating dogs, doing an ollie off a railing, skutching flax, tightening a wing nut, fixing the photocopier with a paperclip, or sailing to Byzantium with ...
June 10, 2013 - The Online NewsHour - Cloudy
Cass Sunstein, in his May 27 op-ed, “Wing-Nuttiness May Now Be Treatable,” defines a wing nut as “someone who has a dogmatic commitment to an extreme political view that is false and at least a bit crazy.”
June 9, 2013 - Valley News