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.