mugwort

From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge +‎ wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɡwɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɡwɝt/

mugwort (countable and uncountable, plural mugworts)

1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
2. Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 197:

     Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:

     Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.

• absinthe, artemisia, sagebrush, tarragon, vermouth, wormwood

• mogwort, mogworte, mucgwurt, muggeworte, mugwourth, mugwurt, mugwyrt

From Old English mucgwyrt; possibly equivalent to mydge +‎ wort.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɡwurt/

mugwort (uncountable)

1. wormwood, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

• English: mugwort
• Scots: muggart
  • ⇒ Scots: muggins

• “mug-wort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.