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nutmegging

nutmegging is the present participle and gerund of nutmeg.

Meaning of nutmeg

Verb

nutmeg (third-person singular simple present nutmegs, present participle nutmegging, simple past and past participle nutmegged)

  1. (transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.
    • She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.
  2. (transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
    • Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling...2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)

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Questions about nutmegging

What is nutmegging the present participle and gerund of?
Nutmegging is the present participle and gerund of nutmeg.

Words near nutmegging in the dictionary

  1. nutmeg yews
  2. nutmegg
  3. nutmegged
  4. nutmegger
  5. nutmeggers
  6. nutmegging
  7. nutmeggs
  8. nutmeggy
  9. nutmegs
  10. nutpecker
  11. nutpeckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nutmegging (page history and authors); nutmeg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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