wing nut

See also: wingnut and wing-nut

English

Wingnuts: nuts with wing-like projections.

Alternative forms

• wing-nut, wingnut

Etymology

From wing +‎ nut.

Pronunciation

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Noun

wing nut (plural wing nuts)

1. A nut with wing-like projections to provide leverage in turning with thumb and forefinger.

   Synonyms: butterfly nut, (some designs) thumbnut

2. Alternative form of wingnut (“person with radical political views, especially right-wing or conservative ones”).
3. Alternative form of wingnut (“person with large ears”).

Related terms

• wingnut (plant)

Translations

nut with wing-like projections

• Catalan: femella d'orelles f, femella papallona f
• Danish: vingemøtrik (da) c
• Dutch: vleugelmoer (nl), bladmoer
• Esperanto: aletŝraŭbingo
• Finnish: siipimutteri (fi), lehtimutteri (fi)
• French: écrou à oreilles (fr) m, écrou papillon m, papillon (fr) m
• German: Flügelmutter (de) f
• Greek: πεταλούδα (el) f (petaloúda)
• Ido: aletoskrubino (io)
• Irish: cnó eiteach m, cnó cluasach m
• Manx: cro cleashagh m
• Russian: барашковая га́йка f (baraškovaja gájka), барашек (ru) m (barašek)
• Spanish: palomilla (es) f
• Swedish: vingmutter c

Further reading

• Wingnut (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia