Meaning of mushrump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mushroom, fungus.
   archaic
2. Upstart, a person who has quickly and undeservedly gained their position, power or wealth.
   archaic, attributive, derogatory, sometimes

Examples

“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 […]”

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

“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, […]”

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

“[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 […]”

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