nutmeg

English

A whole nutmeg

A nutmeg plant

Etymology

From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a part-translation Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

nutmeg (countable and uncountable, plural nutmegs)

1. An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
2. The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
3. A grey-brown colour.
4. (soccer) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
   • 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[1]:

     The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.

Derived terms

• African nutmeg
• catabash nutmeg
• Nutmegger
• nutmeg geranium
• nutmeggy
• nutmeg mannikin
• nutmeg melon
• nutmeg pippin
• nutmeg psychosis
• nutmeg yew
• plume nutmeg

 

Descendants

• → Irish: noitmig
• → Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
• → Maori: natimeke

Translations

tree

• Armenian: մշկընկույզ (hy) (mškənkuyz)
• Czech: muškátovník m, macizeň pravá f
• Dutch: muskaatboom
• Finnish: muskottipuu (fi)
• French: muscadier (fr) m
• German: Muskatbaum m, Muskatenbaum m
• Greek: μοσχοκαρυδιά (el) f (moschokarydiá)
• Hindi: जायफल (hi) m (jāyphal)
• Hungarian: szerecsendiófa
• Ido: muskadiero (io)
• Indonesian: pala (id)
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• Kalmyk: зать (zatʹ)
• Macedonian: мо́рски о́рев m (mórski órev)
• Portuguese: noz-moscada f
• Romanian: nucșor (ro) m
• Sinhalese: සාදික්කා (si) (sādikkā)
• Swahili: mkungumanga
• Swedish: muskot (sv) c, muskotträd n
• Tagalog: moskada
• Welsh: nytmeg m, nytmegs m pl

seed

• Arabic: جَوْزَة اَلطِّيب f (jawzat aṭ-ṭīb)

  Egyptian Arabic: جوزة الطيب f (guzt e-ṭiib)

• Armenian: մշկընկույզ (hy) (mškənkuyz)
• Azerbaijani: cövüz
• Brunei Malay: buah pala
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: nou moscada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉豆蔻 (zh) (ròudòukòu)

• Crimean Tatar: miskat cevizi
• Czech: muškát (cs) m, muškátový ořech m
• Danish: muskat (da), muskatnød (da)
• Dhivehi: ތަކޫވައް (takūvak̊)
• Dutch: muskaat (nl) m, muskaatnoot f, nootmuskaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: muskato
• Finnish: muskotti (fi)
• French: noix de muscade (fr) f, noix muscade f
• Georgian: მუსკატი (musḳaṭi), ჯავზი (ǯavzi)
• German: Muskat (de) m, (alternative spelling: Muskatnuß) Muskatnuss (de) f
• Greek: μοσχοκάρυδο (el) n (moschokárydo)

  Ancient: κώμακον n (kṓmakon), μοσχοκάρυον n (moskhokáruon), μοσχοκαρύδιον n (moskhokarúdion)

• Gujarati: જાયફળ (jāyaphaḷ)
• Hindi: जायफल (hi) (jāyphal)
• Hungarian: szerecsendió (hu)
• Icelandic: múskat n
• Ido: muskado (io)
• Indonesian: pala (id)
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• Irish: noitmig f
• Italian: noce moscata (it) f
• Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
• Kalmyk: зать (zatʹ)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Meskot f
• Macedonian: мо́рско о́ревче n (mórsko órevče)
• Malay: buah pala
• Maori: natimeke
• Marathi: जायफळ n (j̈āyphaḷ)
• Norman: muscade f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: muskatnøtt

  Bokmål: muskat m

  Nynorsk: muskat m

• Persian: جوز هندی (fa) (jowz-e hendi)
• Polish: gałka muszkatołowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: noz-moscada f
• Romanian: nucșoară (ro) f
• Russian: муска́тный оре́х (ru) m (muskátnyj oréx)
• Sanskrit: जाति (sa) f (jāti), फल (sa) n (phala), जातिफल (sa) (jātiphala), जातीफल (sa) (jātīphala)
• Slovene: muškatni orešček (sl) m
• Spanish: nuez moscada f
• Swahili: kungumanga (sw)
• Swedish: muskot (sv) c, muskotnöt c
• Tagalog: moskada
• Thai: จันทน์เทศ (jan-têet)
• Tibetan: ཛ་ཏི (dza ti)
• Vietnamese: hạt nhục đậu khấu

soccer/football sense

• Catalan: túnel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穿裆 (chuāndāng)

• Czech: jesle (cs) pl, housle (cs), (slang) gajdy (cs)
• Dutch: panna (nl) m
• French: petit pont (fr) m
• Hungarian: kötény (hu), alagútcsel, bőr (hu) (slang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tunnel (no) m

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• Polish: siatka (pl) f, rybka (pl) f
• Portuguese: frango (pt) m, cueca (pt) f, rata (pt) f, sainha (pt) f (slang)
• Spanish: caño (es)
• Swedish: tunnel (sv) c

Verb

1. (transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.

   She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.

2. (soccer, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
   • 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[2]:

     Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling salts rather than half-time oranges.

Derived terms

• nutmegger

Translations

to flavour

• French: muscader (fr)
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soccer/football sense of the verb

• Dutch: poorten (nl)
• German: tunneln (de)
• Icelandic: klobba
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slå tunnel på

• Swedish: tunnla (sv)

See also

• myristic
• mace (spice)