[Ads-l] Trivia: heard _nut up_, HDAS "go crazy or go berserk" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Flourish Klink]

My only understanding of "nutted" is as a synonym for "ejaculated" (and not
in the way Jane Austen used the word). "Nut up" is unfamiliar to me.
Interesting (and potentially embarrassing!)

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:11 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM
AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

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> I've only heard the phrase used as a synonym for "man up," "cowboy up,"
> "put on your big boy pants," "grow a pair,"; i.e., quit being such a
> chickenshit and go ahead and do whatever it was you've been saying you'll
> do, instead of being such a puss.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 3:57 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Trivia: heard _nut up_, HDAS "go crazy or go
> berserk"
> >
> >
> > Reality TV, white speaker:
> >
> > "When she saw me with my new girl, she just _nutted up_!"
> >
> > I haven't heard anyone say that in 65 years and never before anybody
> white say it before nor have I heard it used with that meaning before.
> >
> > Back in the The Lou in the '50's, to _nut up_ was to "burst into
> uncontrolled laughter, turning and bending at the waist, slapping thigh,
> > guffawing," etc. More-mature readers may recall this as one of Sammy
> Davis, Jr.'s shticks. Younger readers may have seen this parodied -
> > as a general black thing,  as it it is: been there, done that; and not
> as anyone's particular shtick- on Key & Peele.
> >
> > My WAG, FWIW, is that both uses derive ultimately from _go nuts_. But...
> >
> > Youneverknow.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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