The word "nuthouse" is technically considered a slang term and is not generally used in formal or academic writing.
However, it is a commonly used term in spoken English and informal writing, especially in casual or humorous contexts. Example: "My brother is acting so crazy lately, I swear he belongs in a nuthouse!".
"I didn't know that when I was a kid… but it became obvious after 1969, from conversations I heard my parents having, that he had to go to the hospital – or nuthouse as they called it in those days – because he had a nervous breakdown when my grandfather died.
The Bird Cage was a normal theatrical nuthouse.
"When I'm in the nuthouse, I want you to remember I like Hershey's Kisses with almonds in them," she told me without smiling.
Also, I must have confused the scene with the one in "Miracle on 34th Street" in which Edmund Gwynne's harmless old Kris Kringle escapes commitment to the nuthouse when the Post Office interrupts his sanity hearing by delivering him twenty-one bags of mail addressed to "Santa Claus".
Did you run off from a nuthouse, eh? Where'd he come from?" "He was just wandering around," the white coat answered.
Slayman has referred to the Alpi letter as "the last serious confrontation between the scientific community and the nuthouse on these issues".
Even in the nuthouse, they were afraid to take me in, because I'm Sinead O'Connor".
PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's experiences in mental hospitals and how the culture of genteel nuthouses died with the introduction of pharmapsychology... Describes playing Ping-Pong and the institutional meals.
The New Yorker, January 8 , 2001P. 32 PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's experiences in mental hospitals and how the culture of genteel nuthouses died with the introduction of pharmapsychology... Describes playing Ping-Pong and the institutional meals..
By Daphne Merkin The New Yorker, January 8 , 2001P. 32 PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's experiences in mental hospitals and how the culture of genteel nuthouses died with the introduction of pharmapsychology... Describes playing Ping-Pong and the institutional meals..
"And don't talk to me about hospices or nuthouses.
