Nut
Nut noun - A person of odd or whimsical habits.
Start
Start noun - The point at which something begins.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Inverted on Eureka, where non-nerd Jack Carter is the baseball nut, and his attempt to start a town baseball team is not initially popular.
Source: Game of Nerds -
However, when Parker goes back in time to save the ship, it turns out that the visiting admiral is an anti-Commie nut who wants to start a war with China in order to crush them before they're a full-fledged superpower.
Source: Mutual Kill -
Gun Nut: Kohta is a self-proclaimed "gun otaku", but as he is a sixteen-year-old in Japan at the start of this series, he doesn't actually own any.
Source: Manga / Highschool of the Dead
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Start and Nut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nut/start
Nut & Start. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/nut/start>.
Start or Nut. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/nut/start.
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