[Ads-l] "shroom" a/d's

[Jesse Sheidlower]

While taking a break from cooking, I thought I'd take a look at this.... Hard to search, as a huge number of database hits are for "mush-room" over a linebreak, but here are a couple:

shroom n. 'a mushroom' Merriam-Webster 1976, OED 1977

1968 _'Teen_ Sept. 48/3: The fourth boy was going to split a pizza with his date, so he
ordered "a 'za with 'shrooms and 'chovies with grazing room for two."

(This also antedates OED for _za_, which they have from a 1968-70 volume of _Current Slang_.)

https://archive.org/details/sim_teen_1968-09_12_9/page/48/mode/1up

shroom n. (specif.) = magic mushroom, OED 1979

1973 _Silver Sands_ (Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) 49/2: I've already made $200 this week.... All I do is take the orders, drive my van up to the pastures in White City, load up with shrooms, and ship them to my customers via air mail.... One weekend some friends and I searched through a pasture and found some of the 'Magic Mushrooms' we had heard so much about.

https://archive.org/details/silversands197273brow/page/n56/mode/1up

Jesse Sheidlower

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