different between shrood vs shroom

English

Alternative forms

• shroud
• shrowd

Verb

shrood (third-person singular simple present shroods, present participle shrooding, simple past and past participle shrooded)

1. (Britain, dialect) To trim; to lop.

Anagrams

• dhoors, hoords, rhodos

English

Alternative forms

• 'shroom (especially in “mushroom” sense)

Etymology

Clipping of mushroom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

shroom (plural shrooms)

1. (slang, usually in the plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.
   • 2009, Sean Williams, Jesus and the Magic Mushroom, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 33:

     Dosage: The typical amount of beginner “shroom” dosage ranges from 1.5 grams of dried shrooms for a mild experience, to 3.5 grams for an intense experience.

2. (informal, rare) Any mushroom.

Translations

Verb

shroom (third-person singular simple present shrooms, present participle shrooming, simple past and past participle shroomed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To take magic mushrooms.
   • 2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 23:

     Not just because it was sophmoric and juvenile (which it surely was) but I was shrooming pretty heavily by now.

   • 2014, Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London, Penguin UK (?ISBN)

     Just a few months ago I was in Amsterdam with two old friends from the Lahore art world. On a warm summer night we checked out some galleries and walked along the canals, whirring bicycles and shrooming teenagers passing us in the darkness.

Derived terms

• shroomer
• shroomhead