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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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/ .