Nutmegger
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Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the state of Connecticut. The official name for Connecticut is 'the Constitution State', as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature; however 'The Nutmeg State' is also an unofficial name for the state, hence the nickname 'nutmegger'.
The origin of the appelation is unknown. One theory is that it comes from Yankee peddlers selling nutmegs in colonial times. These nutmegs may have been the real thing, i.e. the hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), an East Indian evergreen tree, or counterfeit wooden nutmegs; or, as has been suggested[1], they were the real thing but customers unfamiliar with the native form of the spice might have decided they had been sold a counterfeit after futilely trying to grind the unusually hard[2] seed.
The term "nutmegger" is also used about people who often use nutmeg recreationally. [3]
