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Mushroom French Grow Develop Modern Klein Weekley Mʌʃrum

单词 mushroom
音标 ['mʌʃrum]
解释 n.蘑菇;v.雨后春笋般迅速发展
红宝书 【英】 蘑菇(any of several types of fungus which grow and develop very quickly)雨后春笋般迅速发展( grow and develop fast)
【例】 new blocks of flats and offices mushrooming all over the city
字源 mushroom (n.)
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.
mushroom (v.)
"expand or increase rapidly," 1741, from mushroom (n.). Related: Mushroomed; mushrooming.
不择手段背单词
趣味全助记 【记】mush 软糊糊的东西黏稠的 + room 软糊糊的象房子般的东西;音:蘑湿 room蘑菇湿的象房

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