NUTS
Just a minute. My apartment has been invaded by Rowan Atkinson!
POPIK: Get out of here, Bean!! You missed your cue!! I did "Bean Town" two
etymologies ago!!
Sorry. Good thing that guy doesn't talk! On to "nuts."
The RHHDAS has a very large "nut(s)" entry. I posted the song "I'm a Nut"
a few months ago. This is from the New-York Commercial Advertiser, 15
September 1871, pg. 2, col. 3:
The exposure of the spoliations committed by the carpet-bag governments
in some of the Southern States is "nuts" for the Richmond _Whig_. And the
worst of it is, that it can with such perfect confidence, defy the President
to crack them.