Nutmegger, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Nutmegger n.

[joc. allusion to the reputation of New Englanders as purveyors of ‘wooden nutmegs’]

(US) a native of Connecticut.

1877		Daily Globe (St Paul, MN) 17 Jan. 1/7: Lively contest Among the Republicans of Badgerdom [...] The Nutmeggers in a similar Fix.
1890		St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 18 Feb. 5/1: [headline] Indignant Nutmeggers Give Wife-Beater a Dose of the Cat.
1902		Wash. Times (DC) 25 Aug. 5/6: Willie Fenn, the stocky ‘Nutmegger’ is now hailed as the ‘Handicap King’.