Nutmeggy
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy. The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off."
Etymology
From nutmeg + -y.
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