Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Conjurer's nut

👉 Okay, settle yourselves in for this. Let’s tackle what I suspect you haven't actually stumbled upon until now: the singularly peculiar and frankly rather alarming existence of… the Conjurer's Nut.

Now, a “conjurer's nut," traditionally (and rather dramatically, let me tell you) was not a thing to be sensibly nibbled on. Instead, it referred almost exclusively to the absolutely wretched, tiny, and invariably rotten walnut that a failed or terribly paranoid conjurer would habitually hoard within his waistcoat lining. Let’s unpack this because there's a weird little history here. Early practitioners of practical sorcery – you know, the ones actually trying to conjure things rather than just pretend they could – tended to suffer from crippling self-doubt and an atrocious fear that their spells wouldn't quite… work. Hence, every botched attempt resulted in a pathetic, decaying walnut being shoved into the very folds of one's clothing. It was meant as a morbid, little talisman: "Here! Proof that I, too, fail miserably! Bury this, it won’t absolve me!" The name itself is wonderfully awful – conjurers were already operating under a considerable amount of pressure and delusion. The nut just... solidified that. Nobody actually ate them. They were more likely to attract moths the size of small field mice than a decent meal. They smelled faintly, and perpetually, of disappointment. Now, for an