--- title: "How to pronounce \"wing nut\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"wing nut\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/4CKiBvN5jM4/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wing-nut" --- # How to pronounce "wing nut" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈwɪŋˌnʌt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **win·gnut** - **Stress**: **WIN** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/En-au-wingnut.ogg/En-au-wingnut.ogg.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A deciduous tree of the genus Pterocarya native to Asia. - A person who is or seems odd, eccentric, or crazy; especially, someone with bizarre or extreme political views. - *Example*: "Near-synonyms: nut, nut job, nut case, crank, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person, Thesaurus:mad person" ### Example Sentences - "Near-synonyms: nut, nut job, nut case, crank, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person, Thesaurus:mad person" - "right-wing nut and the President of the United States Bill Clinton" - "listen up you wing nut Dy Parton is an American treasure and the fact that she is on that stage at all is a" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (11 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "wing nut" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "package I'm assuming it's now going to pass the house representatives all I had to do was 12 photos and they don't get right-wing nut and the President of the United States Bill Clinton" - **Watch at 37:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CKiBvN5jM4&t=2243s) ### Example 2 *Accent: AUS* > "listen up you wing nut Dy Parton is an American treasure and the fact that she is on that stage at all is a" - **Watch at 11:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkdPHCCg3AY&t=663s) ### Example 3 *Accent: AUS* > "listen up you wing nut Dy Parton is an American treasure and the fact that she is on that stage at all is a" - **Watch at 11:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUdYA7Pl_k&t=663s) ### Example 4 > "And certainly some of the language that the Trump administration has used about Anthropic has suggested this is not just about policy. It's also about politics. You have the president calling them left-wing nut jobs at one point. You have people seeing you in the Pentagon uh suggesting that this is about America first, that they're not going to in any way allow an IPO to take precedence. But at the same time, particularly as you've seen the Trump administration" - **Watch at 7:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPz_B7AOKs&t=455s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "says, "This crazy right-wing nut's going to be creamed." - **Watch at 40:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ouzj3R574&t=2446s) ### Example 6 > "My question is AI decision making about what we do. Do you mind being called an ideological lunatic or a bunch of left wing nut jobs? You know, I've been called worse things than that all the time." - **Watch at 27:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wZwxY3CMg&t=1625s) ### Example 7 > "We have DNA sequencing through water now. Like we can, you're telling me no one found one wing nut of a ship in all, like the Egyptians up until right now, no one in Russia saw like a crashed ship, took a picture, tweeted that ship real quick and you know?" - **Watch at 100:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwN8u6HFH8U&t=6006s) ### Example 8 > "That's. Anthropic is run by an ideological lunatic who shouldn't have a, sole, that's, But. That's not my. Question. My question is AI decision making over what we do, Do you mind being called an ideological lunatic or a bunch of left wing nut jobs? You know, I've been called worse things than that all the time." - **Watch at 41:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2VHFgyawPE&t=2475s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "there--it's near the Boulevard Montmartre, where a lot of the newspaper offices still are--and a right-wing nut put a pistol through from outside," - **Watch at 1:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd6hBBPWHvg&t=83s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "But she did understand that it wasn't going to be a hatchet job on her, painting her out to be right-wing nut." - **Watch at 33:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sJPA7Rl8OY&t=2039s) ## How to Pronounce "wing nut" - **Syllables**: win · gnut - **Stress**: WIN — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈwɪŋˌnʌt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /WIN/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [wing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wing), [nut](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nut) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “wing nut”? “wing nut” is pronounced /ˈwɪŋˌnʌt/ (win · gnut). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “wing nut”? “wing nut” has 2 syllables: win · gnut. ### Where is the stress in “wing nut”? The primary stress in “wing nut” is on “WIN”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “wing nut” mean? A deciduous tree of the genus Pterocarya native to Asia. ### How can I hear “wing nut” used in real sentences? This page has 11 real-world video examples of “wing nut” with synchronized subtitles. 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