n 1 u 1 t 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
6 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily
originFirst attested in 1880; back-formation from nutation (1610s) on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin nūtātiō (“a nodding”), from nūtō (“to nod”), from Proto-Indo-European *neu-. Compare mutate.
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