nutmeggy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a nutmeg seed in taste or appearance.
Example Sentences
- "The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy. The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off."
- "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."
Etymology
From nutmeg + -y.
Inflected Forms
more nutmeggy (comparative)
most nutmeggy (superlative)