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Bookmark or Share- Origin of "deez nuts" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange“I'm not going to let anyone mess with deez-nuts”— Peter Smith and Fred M Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds. p. 18, 1985. Contradicting that is: Deez nuts is a phrase that originated from the song "Deeez Nuuuts" on Dr. Dre's original album "The Chronic", released in 1992. (www.chacha.com) Also, incomplete:
- Origin of the idiom "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts"?'Ifs and buts' before 'candy and nuts' or 'tents and huts' The phrase "ifs and buts" appears in Google Books search results going back to Luther Martin, Modern Gratitude, in Five Numbers: Addressed to Richard Raynal Keyne, Esq. Concerning a Family Marriage, which includes this outraged footnote: Precious Hypocrite!
- Questions about meanings and usage of "deez nuts"Regarding your now third further, separate, question. You've hit the nail on the head, "Deez Nuts" is mostly just used as a more or less content-free, silly sort of non-sequitor. It's just a silly phrase, with silly use. You're not going to "find out" much about the usage of it. It's little different from yelling out "F--- me!" or "F--- you!"
- How did the phrase "are you nuts" come about?But allied senses of nuts involving infatuation or being out of one's normal mind go back at least to the mid-19th century and perhaps (in the former case) to the late 18th century. I suspect that the intertwining meanings of nuts strongly influenced each other, which makes pinning down the exact date of emergence of the "insane" sense of the ...
- How nutty are the terms "nut case", "health nut" and "sports nut"?Nuts as a derisive retort is attested from 1931. I think that the expressions health nut has a derogatory meaning: Health nut. A health nut is a person who is obsessed about his/her health. "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." while sports nut is more neutral: Sports nut: A Sports fan.
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