nutmeg

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nutmeg/ˈnʌtmeɡ/

▶noun

• 1 the hard, aromatic, almost spherical seed of a tropical tree, used as a spice.

• 2 the evergreen tree that bears nutmegs, native to the Moluccas. [Myristica fragrans.]

▶verb (nutmegs, nutmegging, nutmegged) Soccer, informal play the ball through the legs of (an opponent).

– origin ME notemuge, partial translation of OFr. nois muguede, based on L. nux ‘nut’ + late L. muscus ‘musk’.