Mushymushy

• Anglo-Norman muserun: mushroom

• German meischen: to tread grapes

• Norwegian meiska, Swedish mäska, Danish mæske: to mash (as in the brewing of beer)

• Echo of mishe mishe (Page 3)

• Italian mise: I, me (emphatic); I am.

• Exodus 3.4: Mosheh, Mosheh ("Moses, Moses!"), words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush. Early lives of St Patrick said that he resembled Moses in four ways.

• The full phrase, "his stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find was she mushymushy" is a reversal of the formula "me me to thou thou" occuring throughout the book. (Cf. Tauftauf or Mishe mishe)