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English
Etymology
From mushroom + -y.
Adjective
mushroomy (comparative mushroomier, superlative mushroomiest)
- Characteristic of mushrooms.
the mushroomy smell of the old cellar
1957, Margaret Williams, The Well-Fed Bridgegroom, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 116:Dried mushrooms are really mushroomier than the canned and very simple to use; they are used a great deal in Chinese and Italian cooking.
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 18:It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.
2007, Liza Dalby, “The Pheasant Cock Calls Its Mate”, in East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 274–275:Japanese may think of matsutake as the preeminent, mushroomiest mushroom of them all, but in the West, it is the poisonously beautiful, bright red, psychotropic, white-dotted member of the genus Amanita, Amanita muscaria, that is the much-cartooned representative ur-mushroom.
- Resembling a mushroom.
- Hypernym: fungoid
- Near-synonyms: mushroomoid, mushroomlike; fungiform
a mushroomy outline of a passing cloud
- Flavoured with mushrooms.
- Synonym: mushroomed
- Antonym: mushroomless
the mushroomy tang of her favorite soup
1993 November 10, Donna Deane, “Warm up to autumn entertaining”, in Herald Statesman, page 1B:What follows are simple party recipes that are naturals for casual indoor entertaining: endive stuffed with garlicky goat cheese, herbs and sun-dried tomatoes; a mushroomy pasta salad; asparagus, lima beans, leeks and fennel tossed in an all-green salad; a grilled vegetable sandwich; a fig upside-down cake, and, of course, brownies.
1995, Brian Karsh, “Before and After”, in TheaterWeek, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: That New Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, page 54, column 3:The scallops are pounded and watchfully cooked to maximize their callow tenderness, which is further italicized by the mushroomiest sauce on the block, glowing with fine Marsala wine.
1996, Susan Powter, “Mushroom Onion Gravy”, in C’mon America, Let’s Eat! Susan’s Favorite Low-Fat Recipes to Fit Your Lifestyle, New York, N.Y.: Fireside, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 274:You can’t have an ail-American cookbook without a great gravy recipe. No can do, so we worked hard to get you the creamiest, mushroomiest, low-fat version of the gravy of your childhood and this one did it.
2010 October 13, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “Fancy a Malaysian?”, in The Independent, number 7,489, page 44:In a cool, colonial dining room overlooking the Malacca river, he demonstrates three such recipes: a mellow, mushroomy chicken curry (ayam pong the), a fiery okra salad (sambal bendeh), and – a personal favourite – a spicy, oniony shrimp-paste omelette (cincalock omelette).
2012, Anne Warren Smith, Bittersweet Summer, Chicago, Ill.: Albert Whitman & Company, →ISBN, page 131:I folded my mushroomy pizza into my paper napkin and pushed it away from me along with dreams of Mom bringing pancakes to the table or baking cookies.
2023, Dina Nayeri, chapter 6, in Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough, New York, N.Y.: Catapult, →ISBN, page 164:Charlie found me the saltiest, mushroomiest hard cheeses.
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