# mushroomy
## 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.

#### Related terms

* shroomy

#### See also

* fungiphile