Definition of "mushrump"
mushrump
noun
plural mushrumps
Quotations
[…] you, whose pastime / Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that reioyce / To heare the solemne Curfewe […]
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, [Act V, scene i]
(archaic, derogatory, sometimes attributively) Upstart, a person who has quickly and undeservedly gained their position, power or wealth.
Quotations
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 […]
1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], (please specify the page)
[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 […]
1636, John Trussel, “The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Fift”, in A Continuation of the Collection of the History of England, London: Ephraim Dawson, page 213