Talk:nut up
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[edit]Definition could not be more wrong. Why do you think it is nut up OR shut up? Anarchangel (talk) 02:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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Not sense 1 ("show courage"), but sense 2: "To suffer in silence, without complaint or protest." This seems wrong: it would be the second "shut up" part of "nut up or shut up", wouldn't it? Equinox ◑ 04:03, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 03:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Separate etymology for "lose one's temper" sense
[edit]@Ioaxxere, wouldn't the sense you recently added go under a different etymology since it doesn't seem to derive from a reference to testicles? —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 00:14, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- Possibly, although technically both definitions are from nut + up but just different senses of nut. According to Green's there are other missing senses as well [1] Ioaxxere (talk) 00:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- I would say that compounds based on different senses of the same words should generally be put under different etymologies. The only sense for nut up that I see missing that is at the Green's link is the "to ignore; to be silent" sense
which failed RFV in the discussion above. The two other senses, "to lose one’s temper completely, to go berserk" and "to act tough", we seem to now have. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 00:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)- So, @Ioaxxere, any objection to me splitting the senses? —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 19:49, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- I personally wouldn't but I don't care too much either way. Ioaxxere (talk) 20:16, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- So, @Ioaxxere, any objection to me splitting the senses? —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 19:49, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- I would say that compounds based on different senses of the same words should generally be put under different etymologies. The only sense for nut up that I see missing that is at the Green's link is the "to ignore; to be silent" sense
