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Nutmeg vs Nutmeggy - What's the difference?

nutmeg | nutmeggy |

As a noun nutmeg

is an evergreen tree, , cultivated in the east indies for its spicy seeds.

As a verb nutmeg

is to flavour with nutmeg.

As an adjective nutmeggy is

resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.

nutmeg

English

(wikipedia nutmeg) (Myristica fragrans)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An evergreen tree, , cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
  • The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
  • A grey-brown colour.
  • (football) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.

    • Derived terms

    * nutmeg mannikin * nutmeg melon * nutmeg psychosis * nutmeg pippin

    Verb

    (nutmegg)
  • To flavour with nutmeg.
    • She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.
  • (soccer) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).

    • See also

    * myristic * mace (spice)

    nutmeggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.
  • * 1873 , John A Lidell, A Treatise on Apoplexy: Cerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Embolism, Cerebral Gout, Cerebral Rheumatism, and Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
    • The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy . The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off.
  • Flavoured with nutmeg
  • * 2004 , Lesley Johnson, Justine Lloyd, Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife
    • Sometimes that's the best we can manage, but to others we want to feel not like a postmodern, post-feminist, overstretched modern woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.