nutmeggy

English

Etymology

nutmeg + -y

Adjective

nutmeggy (comparative more nutmeggy, superlative most nutmeggy)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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