mushroomed

verbsprout; grow quickly

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., muscheron, musseroun (attested 1327 as a surname, John Mussheron), from Anglo-French musherun, Old French meisseron (11c., Modern French mousseron), perhaps from Late Latin mussirionem (nominative mussirio), though this might as well be borrowed from French. Barnhart says "of uncertain origin." Klein calls it "a word of pre-Latin origin, used in the North of France;" OED says it usually is held to be a derivative of French mousse "moss" (from Germanic), and Weekley agrees, saying it is properly "applied to variety which grows in moss," but Klein says they have "nothing in common." For the final -m Weekley refers to grogram, vellum, venom. Modern spelling is from 1560s.

Used figuratively for something or someone that makes a sudden appearance in full form from 1590s. In reference to the shape of clouds after explosions, etc., it is attested from 1916, though the actual phrase mushroom cloud does not appear until 1955.

Example Sentences for mushroomed

Smoky, Ted's experience told him, never would have moved from beside the sycamores if this bullet had mushroomed.

It shot a bullet as big as your thumb which mushroomed out and exploded, as soon as it hit.

The hollow-fronted ball struck on the ribs, and traversing the vitals, "mushroomed" itself against the shoulder-blade.

It mushroomed with a flare of scorching radiance that drove needles of agony into the gangster's body.

Even Step Hen recognized it as the mushroomed bullet that had been fired from his rifle.

It was a soft-nosed bullet, probably of thirty caliber, which had mushroomed after striking something.

The first was split and mushroomed much more than the other, but the butts of both were intact.

In some subtle way the two mushroomed bullets were the same and yet were different to the unused one.

Presently they came to an enormous dust cloud that had mushroomed out over the trees.

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