mushrump

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

---L.