cascanueces
See also: Cascanueces
Spanish
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of casca (“to crack”) + nueces (“nuts”).
Noun
cascanueces m (plural cascanueces)
- nutcracker
- nutcracker (bird)
- (colloquial) madcap, harebrained young man
Further reading
- “cascanueces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024