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noun
A pile of leaves with a mushroom underneath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: biology, mycology, natural-sciences
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verb
To shrink, shrivel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
To shiver from cold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
To shrug (the shoulders).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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History
Blend of mushroom + hump.
From Low German schrumpen, from Middle Low German *schrumpen (attested in Middle Low German vorschrumpen, vörschrumpen (“to shrivel, wrinkle”)), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *skrimpan. Related to German schrumpfen (“to shrivel, shrink”), Danish skrumpe (“to shrink”). Related to English shrimp.
