mung

See also: mừng and múŋ

English

Alternative forms

• moong, munge

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌŋ/, /muːŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Noun

mung (plural mungs)

1. A type of small bean.
2. The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or .

References

“mung”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Etymology 2

Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.

Alternative forms

• munge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Verb

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

1. (computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
2. (by extension, informal) to harm, to damage; to destroy

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Amanab

Noun

mung

1. leg