Definition of "bannut"
bannut
noun
plural bannuts
(dialectal, England) The English walnut.
Quotations
Wor. They picks they stones off the common, as small as bannuts (H.K.). w.Wor.1 Sarmints is ahl like bannuts; d’reckly yŭ opens ’um, yŭ knaows w’ats in ’um. […] se.Wor.1 The fust time as ever I knaowed ’im wus w’en ’e wus took up fur stalin’ bannits. […] We cannot tell how many bannuts there be, till we beat the trees (A.B.); Ellis Pronun. (1889) V. 66. ne.Glo. The old man … forbade the young fellow’s visits, bluntly declaring that he might go and ‘bad the bannuts’ somewhere else, Household Wds. (1885) 141. […] Som. A woman, a spaunel, and a bannut tree, The mooar you bate ’em the better they be, W. & J. Gl. (1873);
1898, “BANNUT, sb.”, in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 158, column 1
In 1810-11 the tenant of Rushock Court at his own expense, planted: / 220 strong pears at 3/- / 56 pear stocks at 2/- / 104 pears at 1/6 / 114 stocks at 2/- / 60 crabs at 1/6 / 41 crabs at 1/- / 26 damsons at 1/6 / 14 walnuts at 2/- / 2 Bannuts at 3/- / 6 Spanish Chestnuts at 1/- /—total with expenses of planting £79 2s. 0d.
1913, Gerald Poynton Mander, The History of the Wolverhampton Grammar School, Wolverhampton: […] Steens Limited at the Old Grammar School Press, page 338
One of the workmen remarked that “He be so like a Christian you canna pass him without givin’ him summat, an’ now I gives him the bannuts* he runs to the door to meet me when he sees me a-comin’.” […] * “Bannuts”—local word for walnuts.
1917 January, Frances Pitt, “The Education of “The Coon””, in The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XLVII, number 258, London, page 84