Trick or spice? How the 'nutmeg' came to dominate the soccer world

Circa 1790: plants used in commerce, including nutmeg, tea and cotton plants. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hulton Archive/Getty Images You may know nutmeg as an item that lives in your spice cabinet. But did you know its colorful verb form? "You get nutmegged on the pitch — it's actually psychologically damaging," Solomon Tesfaye, 33, said on a muggy spring Monday at a pickup soccer game at Randall Field in Washington, D.C. …