# mustard
## English

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### Etymology

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep, from Latin sināpi (“mustard”). Doublet of mostarda.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mŭsʹ-tərd, IPA: /ˈmʌstəɹd/
** (General Australian) IPA: [ˈmas.təd]
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [ˈmɐs.təd]
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** (Northern England) IPA: [ˈmʊs.təd]
** (US) IPA: [ˈmʌs.tɚd]
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* Homophone: mustered
* Hyphenation: mus‧tard

### Noun

mustard (usually uncountable, plural mustards)
* A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
    Synonym: senvy (obsolete)
* Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
    When the waitress brought the food, I asked whether she had any Dijon mustard.
* The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
    Mustard and cress sandwiches.
* Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
    mustard:
* One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C$_2$H$_4$Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
* The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
* Ellipsis of mustard gas.
* (baseball, colloquial) Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).
** 2022 October 20, Scott Russell, “Sport was the great connection for Scott Russell and his father”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:He's left-handed and in his adulthood didn't have a baseball glove to call his own. He borrowed one of mine and just out of the car, still wearing his lab coat having worked an overnight shift, he taught himself to throw right-handed and put plenty of mustard on it.

#### Hyponyms

(vesicant containing 2-chloroethyl groups):
* mustard gas
* nitrogen mustard

#### Derived terms

* Abyssinian mustard (Brassica carinata)
* African mustard (Erysimum repandum)
* alkali mustard (Wislizenia refracta)
* aniline mustard
* ball mustard (Neslia paniculata)
* beer mustard
* black mustard (Brassica nigra)
* brown mustard (Brassica juncea)
* buckler mustard (Biscutella spp.)
* Chinese mustard (Brassica juncea)
* corn mustard (Brassica kaber)
* curled mustard (Brassica juncea subsp. crispifolia)
* cut the mustard
* dijon mustard
* Dijon mustard
* dish mustard (Thlaspi arvense)
* English mustard
* Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata)
* field mustard (Brassica kaber)
* French mustard
* garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
* green mustard cabbage
* green mustard (Eutrema japonicum)
* hare's-ear mustard (Conringia orientalis)
* hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale)
* honey mustard
* Indian mustard (Brassica juncea)
* Japanese mustard (Brassica juncea)
* keen as mustard
* leaf mustard (Brassica juncea)
* mithridate mustard
* mustard gas
* mustard greens (Brassica juncea)
* mustardise
* mustardize
* mustard oil
* mustard-plaister
* mustard plaister
* mustard-plaster
* mustard plaster
* mustard pot
* mustard powder
* mustard seed
* mustard tree
* nitrogen mustard
* oriental mustard (Brassica juncea)
* poor man's mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
* prepared mustard
* red mustard (Brassica nigra)
* sarepta mustard (Brassica besseriana)
* sea mustard
* spinach mustard (Brassica peroiridis)
* spoon mustard
* stadium mustard
* stinking mustard (Thlaspi arvense)
* sulfur mustard
* sulphur mustard
* summer mustard (Brassica kaber)
* tansy mustard (Descurainia pinnata)
* Tewkesbury mustard
* tower mustard (Turritis glabra, syn. Arabis glabra or Arabis turrita)
* treacle-mustard
* treacle mustard
* tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum)
* tumbling mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum)
* uracil mustard
* wall mustard (Diplotaxis muralis)
* white celery mustard (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)
* white mustard (Sinapis alba)
* wild mustard (Brassica kaber)
* wormseed mustard (Erysimum cheiranthoides)
* yellow mustard (Brassica kaber)

#### Translations

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### Adjective

mustard (not comparable)
* Of a dark yellow colour.
** 2007, Cincinnati Magazine, page 81:Everything about her year-old restaurant, from the minimalist menu (about a dozen items) with refreshingly drivel-free descriptions to the decor (unadorned warm mustard walls, unclothed bistro tables), reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.
* (slang) Very good, or very skilled.
** 2005, Bernard Hare, Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 168:My expectations of public services were nil, so any time within a month was fine by me. They did it in less than a week, which was mustard.

#### Translations
### Related terms

* must (grape juice)

### See also

* arugula
* bittercress
* brassica
* charlock
* cress
* dame's violet
* hedge garlic
* jack-by-the-hedge
* peppergrass
* rape (plant)
* sea rocket
* shepherd's purse
* silique
* wasabi
* wintercress
* Appendix:Colors

### References

* “mustard adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* durmast, murtads

## Fingallian
### Etymology

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde.

### Noun

mustard
* (figurative) cudgel (root of mustard)
** 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
    Mustard,Cudgel.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* mostard, mostarde, mustart, mustarde, musterd

### Etymology

From Old French moustarde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmustard(ə)/, /ˈmustərd(ə)/

### Noun

mustard
* A mustard plant; the plant where mustard seeds originate.
* The seeds of this plant used as a spice or flavouring.
* Mustard; a condiment made from mustard seeds.

#### Descendants

* English: mustard
* Fingallian: mustard
* Scots: mustard, mustart

#### References

* “mustard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.