subs. (common).—1. A hat.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.
3. (old).—See quots.
1622. BACON, Natural and Experimental History [Encyclopædic Dictionary]. MUSHROOMS come up in a night, and yet they are unsown; and therefore such as are upstarts in state, they call in reproach MUSHROOMS.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. MUSHROOM. A person or family suddenly raised to riches and eminence: an allusion to that fungus which starts up in a night.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
