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nutmeggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From nutmeg + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.
   • The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy. The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off. 1873, John A Lidell, A Treatise on Apoplexy: Cerebral Hemorrhage, Cerebral Embolism, Cerebral Gout, Cerebral Rheumatism, and Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis:
2. Flavoured with nutmeg
   • 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. 2004, Lesley Johnson, Justine Lloyd, Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife:

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