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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. But 'The Nutmeg State' is the name people like best, hence the nickname 'nutmegger'.
This name probably 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 simply wooden nutmegs.
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