Talk:nut up

Incorrect definition
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)

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
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. &mdash; Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 03:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Separate etymology for "lose one's temper" sense
@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? &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 00:14, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Possibly, although technically both definitions are from 🇰🇲 but just different senses of . According to Green's there are other missing senses as well 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 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. &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 00:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * So, @Ioaxxere, any objection to me splitting the senses? &mdash;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)
 * ✅, see Special:Diff/75413375/75816149. &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 18:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)