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prettygoodwordmushrump (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!
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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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also
Date: 2013-02-19 08:27 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2013-02-20 12:54 am (UTC)Cool -- thanks!
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