Refungus

Refungus: noun. To either give someone back their mushrooms or to reintroduce the population of certain fungi in an area. The word´s history, like the history of almost all other words on this blog, is quite interesting. Refungus was actually coined by mistake. The story goes that in the 1930s, shortly after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, a Honduran-American salesman of mushrooms lost a giant portion of customers. This would not have gone down in history in any way though, if there hadn´t been a few other factors involved. Firstly, this particular mushroom salesman, Pedro de San Seta, was the biggest salesman of mushrooms in the world. Secondly, unlike in the case of many other businessmen, the shareholders in his company demanded their money back, threatening Pedro de San Seta with a lawsuit. He, however, was slightly short of hearing and at one press conference, he replied to the question “When will you refund us?” with the words: “Sí, I vill refungus my mushroom plantations as soon as posible, pero first, you hev to stop bovering me wis da moolah.”