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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!
---L.
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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