mushrump

[prettygoodword]

mushrump (MUSH-ruhmp) - n., (arch.) an alternate spelling of mushroom.


Peoples! Mushrump! Isn't that the most glorious thing since katabatic? Unfortunately, without access to an OED, I cannot tell you when this form was in use, but since mushroom itself was altered from earlier muscheron or musseroun in the late 14th century, I assume it can be no older than that. (Interestingly, mushroom has a Germanic root, via Medieval Latin and then French, that's cognate to moss -- it was first used for a type of fungus that grows in moss.)

MUSHRUMP!

---L.

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[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I should probably add that I came across it in a 17th century poem.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Nothing is as glorious as katabatic.

Though atlatl does come close.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it was as good as katabatic --- just that it's the best thing since katabatic.

---L.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Okay, ready? This is OED3, fortunately, or the list of forms would be half as long and the etymology section almost blank.

Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈmʌʃruːm/ , /ˈmʌʃrʊm/ , U.S. /ˈməʃˌrum/ , /ˈməʃˌrʊm/
Forms:

α. lME musseroun, lME–16 muscheron, 15 mousheroun, 15 musheron, 15 mussheron, 16 mucheron, 16–17 mushroon; Eng. regional (south.) 18 musharune, 18– mesheroon, 18– misheroon, 18– musheroon, 18– musherroon, 18– mushroon, 19– mashroon, 19– musherooin; U.S. regional 18 musheron, 18– mushroon, 19– moosharoon, 19– musharoon, 19– musheroon; also Irish English 18– masheroon, 19– musharoon, 19– musheroon, 19– musherroon, 19– mushroon.

β. 15 mousherom, 15 musherom, 15 musherome, 15 mushorme, 15 mushromme, 15 mushrume, 15 mushrumme, 15–16 mushrom, 15–16 mushrum, 15–17 mushrome, 15– mushroom, 16 mesrume, 16 muschrom, 16 muschrombe, 16 musheroom, 16 mushroome, 16 musroom, 16 musrume, 16 mustrome; Eng. regional (chiefly south.) 18 misheram, 18 mishroom, 18– mesheroom, 18– musharoom, 18– mushelroom, 18– musheroom; U.S. regional 19– murshroom, 19– musheroom, 19– mushyroom, 19– muskroom, 19– musroom; also Irish English (chiefly north.) 19– masheroom, 19– mashyroom, 19– musharoom, 19– musheroom.

γ. 15 moshrump, 15 moushrimpe, 15 mushrumpt, 15–16 mushrompe, 15–16 mushrump, 15–16 mushrumpe, 15–16 mustrump, 16 mishrump, 16 muschrumpe, 16 mushromp.

δ. 15 mushrubbe, 16 mushrub.
See also mousseron n.


Etymology: < Anglo-Norman muserun, muscheroun, musheroun, musherum, musscherom, musseron, mussherum, mosheron, Middle French mouceron (c1190 in Old French in form mosseron , compare also musserun (13th cent.), earlier in Franco-Occitan in form moisserun (c1180 in Girart de Roussillon; compare Old French moisseron (c1225)); Middle French, French mousseron (1532 in Middle French; compare mousseron n.)) < an unattested post-classical Latin *mussarion- , *mussario (compare musarion- , musario and mussirion- , mussirio (both 6th cent., although perhaps later: the MSS in which the forms are attested are 11th cent.)), of unknown origin. The Franco-Occitan and Middle French palatalized forms in moiss- (which in turn give rise to forms in /ʃ/ : compare Anglo-Norman forms cited above, and also Occitan mocharnon , Catalan moixernó (1762)) have not been satisfactorily explained (see Französisches Etymol. Wörterbuch at *mussario; and for an alternative theory see J. Coromines Diccionari Etimològic i Complementari de la Llengua Catalana (1985) at moixernó). Compare also Old Occitan molsairó (14th cent.), apparently showing the influence of Old Occitan molsa moss n.1

Surv. Eng. Dial. records α forms across a broad swathe of southern England: from Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Essex.

In sense A. 3 after French champignon (1694 in this sense; 1709 in the source translated in quot. 1712 at sense A. 3: see champignon n.).

The word is attested earlier as a surname: Johanne Mussheron (1327), although it is uncertain whether this reflects the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word.

The following quot. apparently shows the Anglo-Norman word:
c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) v. 263 Item contra brok: Recipe mussourounys .i. poukisthes qui crescit super sterquilinium .i. miskyn.

N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (mɒ·ʃrum) /ˈmʌʃruːm/ .

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[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

A.1.a. citations through end of C17:

[a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 24 Boletus, fungus idem..angl. tadestol uel padestol, gall. mussherums.]
1440 Promp. Parv. (Harl. 221) 349 Muscheron, toodys hatte, boletus, fungus.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 597/13 Mussetum, musserouns.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 89 Beware of musherons,..and al other thinges, whiche wyll sone putrifie.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 30 The Toad stooles or Mushrooms, which grow out of the Walnut tree, and bee stiffe and hard.
1595 R. Southwell Poems (Grosart) 69 He that high grouth on cedars did bestowe, Gave also lowly mushrumpes [v.r. mushrumpts] leave to growe.
1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 20 That Cædar..Vnder whose girdle, nay beneath whose knee, The little Mesrumes louingly agree.
1656 tr. Marnettè Perfect Cook i. 312 With Sparagus, with Hartichokes, with Muscherons, with Cream [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/2 Agarick, an Excrement or hard Mushroom, growing out of the sides of old Trees.

S.v. A.2.a., "mushrump" is also in Marlowe's Edward II, referring to milord of Cornwall, and elsewhere during the next century. I've cut off the prior bit at C17 because C18 does the normalizing reform thing one'd expect, or at least, that's what the citations provided appear to support. But there's non -rump spellings in early modern usage, too.

Re: also

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Muscheron is almost as lovely, in its way, as mushrump.

Cool -- thanks!

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's the "rump" that makes it glorious.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yup!