nutball
nounEtymology From nut + -ball.
1
Informal A crazy person.
- Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often.1990 February 23, Glenn Garvin, “Postcards From a Lost War”, in Chicago Reader:
- One of their leaders had been hanging around the camp of another preacher man, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. a nutball like Robertson, blaming America for bringing on the horrid attack.2008 March 22, Timothy Egan, “Donner Party Democrats”, in New York Times: