nerts

Alteration of nuts to avoid vulgar nuts (“testicles”)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ts

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."

• nerd (possibly)

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.

nerts (uncountable)

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

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

• nertz (superseded)

Borrowed from German Nerz, from Upper Sorbian nórc (“mink”).

• IPA^(key): /nɛrts/

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• Hyphenation: nerts
• Rhymes: -ɛrts

nerts m (plural nertsen, diminutive nertsje n)

1. European mink, Mustela lutreola

• nertsenbont
• nertsenfokker
• nertsenfokkerij
• nertsenhouderij
• nertsenverbod

nerts n (uncountable)

1. the pelt of a mink

• ernst, snert