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In some senses, mushrump is marked as archaic, derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.
mushrump
noun 2
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2ADJ.
full
MUSHRUMP + NOUN
dust
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noun
1
Mushroom, fungus.
Bozzacchio, an acorne. Also a puffe or mushrump full of dust.
[…] you, whose pastime / Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that reioyce / To heare the solemne Curfewe […]
2
Upstart, a person who has quickly and undeservedly gained their position, power or wealth.
So shall we haue the people of our side, / Which for his fathers sake leane to the king, / But cannot brooke a night growne mushrump, / Such a one as my Lord of Cornewall is […]
You Court ſpaniell, you vnneceſſarie muſhrump, that in one night art ſprung out of the roote of greatnes, […]
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Bozzacchio, an acorne. Also a puffe or mushrump full of dust.
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[…] you, whose pastime / Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that reioyce / To heare the solemne Curfewe […]
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[M]en, if Fame ſay true, / Here at the firſt from ſhower-rayſd muſhrumps grew, […]
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