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nutmeggy

nutmeggy adjective: resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.

Adjective

nutmeggy (comparative more nutmeggy, superlative most nutmeggy)

  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

Forms of nutmeggy

comparativemore nutmeggy
superlativemost nutmeggy

Origin of nutmeggy

From nutmeg + -y.

Questions about nutmeggy

What does nutmeggy mean?
Nutmeggy means resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.
What part of speech is nutmeggy?
Nutmeggy is an adjective.

Words near nutmeggy in the dictionary

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

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