mushrumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mushrump (複数形 mushrumps)

1. (archaic) Mushroom, fungus.
   • 1598, John Florio, “Mushrump”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 47:

     Bozzacchio, an acorne. Also a puffe or mushrump full of dust.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] you, whose pastime / Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that reioyce / To heare the solemne Curfewe […]

   • 1626, Ovid, “The Seuenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 136:

     [M]en, if Fame ſay true, / Here at the firſt from ſhower-rayſd muſhrumps grew, […]

2. (archaic, derogatory, sometimes attributively) Upstart, a person who has quickly and undeservedly gained their position, power or wealth.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     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 […]

   • 1605 (date written), Iohn Day, The Ile of Guls. […], London: […] [John Trundle], and are to bee sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1606, →OCLC, signature [B4], recto:

     You Court ſpaniell, you vnneceſſarie muſhrump, that in one night art ſprung out of the roote of greatnes, […]

   • 1610, John Healey (translator), Epictetus His Manuall, London: E. Blunt & W. Barret, Chapter 29, p. 34,^[1]

     Oh here is a mushrump Phylosopher! shotte vppe since yesterday:

   • 1636, John Trussel, A Continuation of the Collection of the History of England, London: Ephraim Dawson, “The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Fift,” p. 213,^[2]

     [I]f these Vpstarts and mushrump nobles, were but permitted to bee about the Kings Person in his youth, they would afterwards by that meanes so purchase his favour, that they would become so powerfull, when hee should attaine to maturitie of yeares, that all the Honours, Possessions, and lines of the ancient Nobilitie of this Realme would bee in danger, to bee subject to their wills […]