nutmegged
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]nutmegged
- simple past and past participle of nutmeg
Adjective
[edit]nutmegged (not comparable)
- Seasoned with nutmeg.
- 1814, John Nicholson, The Farmer's Assistant, page 17:
- Bake a rye-loaf well nutmegged; cut it in pieces and put it in a narrow bag with some hops and some wheat, and put the bag into the cask at the bung-hole.
- (pathology, obsolete) Of the liver, textured like nutmeg as a result of hepatopathy.
- 1886, Charles Hilton Fagge, “Chronic Bronchitis”, in The Principles and Practice of Medicine, volume 1, page 875:
- Ultimately the liver becomes nutmegged, the spleen and the kidneys indurated, the stomach congested.