nutmeg

«nutmeg» in Mova's school dictionary: A brown spice made by grating the hard seed of a tropical… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (nutmeg — the spice, uncountable; a nutmeg, nutmegs); verb (nutmeg, nutmegs, nutmegged, nutmegging — football slang)

meaning for a pupil

1) A brown spice made by grating the hard seed of a tropical tree, used in cakes, custard and drinks. tree →

2) (football slang, UK) To nutmeg someone is to kick the ball between their legs and run past them; the trick itself is called a nutmeg (or megs). tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking, nutmeg goes in rice pudding, pumpkin pie and eggnog. In history, nutmeg came from the Banda Islands in Indonesia and was once worth more than gold, so countries fought over it. In playground football, a nutmeg is a cheeky trick. Phrases: grated nutmeg, megs!

examples

• Sprinkle a little nutmeg on the custard. tree →
• Nutmeg was once so valuable that people fought wars over it. tree →
• Grandma grates nutmeg into her rice pudding. tree →
• He nutmegged the defender and scored! tree →
• The crowd cheered the nutmeg. tree →
• Too much nutmeg can make you ill, so use only a pinch. tree →

note

The spice is uncountable (some nutmeg); a whole seed is countable (a nutmeg). Verb doubles g: nutmegged. Despite its name, nutmeg is a seed, not a true nut.

In the corpora

• Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, now part of Indonesia.
• In 1621 the Dutch East India Company killed or enslaved most people of the Banda Islands to control nutmeg.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nutmeg» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.