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wooden nutmegs

wooden nutmegs is the plural of wooden nutmeg.

Meaning of wooden nutmeg

Noun

wooden nutmeg (plural wooden nutmegs)

  1. Synonym of wooden nickel (“a worthless item intended to appear like another of value”).
    • These were nearly all Yankees, regarded by the Southern people as a trafficking, tricky set, ready to sell a wooden nutmeg or any other sham. They, in turn, looked on the Kentuckians as a lazy, shiftless class, subsisting on hog, hominy and corn-bread, and willing tools in their hands.1879, William Henry Perrin, Albert Adams Graham, D. M. Blair, editors, The History of Coles County, Illinois, page 343
    Synonyms:
    wooden nickel

Questions about wooden nutmegs

What is wooden nutmegs the plural of?
Wooden nutmegs is the plural of wooden nutmeg.

Words near wooden nutmegs in the dictionary

  1. wooden mare
  2. wooden mares
  3. wooden nickel
  4. wooden nickels
  5. wooden nutmeg
  6. wooden nutmegs
  7. wooden onesie
  8. wooden overcoat
  9. wooden overcoats
  10. wooden spoon
  11. wooden spooner

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