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mung
mung (mʌŋ) vb (tr) (Computer Science) computing slang to process (computer data)[C20: m(ash) u(ntil) n(o) g(ood)]ThesaurusNoun | 1. | mung - erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolusgolden gram, green gram, mung bean, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiatalegume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosaegenus Vigna, Vigna - genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus |
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mungA foul, gloppy substance. I can't believe they expect us to eat this mung! He fell into the pond and came out covered in black, odious mung.mung up1. To ruin or damage something; to mess up something. In this usage, a noun of pronoun can be used between "mung" and "up." The threat of a hurricane really munged up our vacation plans! Boy, you really munged this engine up. When was the last time you got your oil changed? I munged up my knee in practice last night so I won't be able to play on Saturday.2. To make a mistake; to mess up. I think I munged up by putting it in the oven too soon. You munged up, Dave. Just admit and we can all move on.3. To fail or malfunction. The printer munged up last night so I still haven't printed my report. It looks like the carburetor is totally munged up—you'll have to get the whole thing replaced.See also: mung, upmung something upSl. to mess something up. Don't mung it up this time. The team munged up the play, and the coach blasted them but good.See also: mung, upmung1. and MUNG (məŋ) n. something that is mashed until no good; anything nasty or gloppy. (An acronym, but possibly a coinage before it became an acronym.) This mung is cruel and unusual punishment. I demand to see the warden. 2. tv. to ruin something. Look at it! You munged it! MUNG verbSee mungmung something up tv. to mess something up. The team munged up the play, and the coach blasted them but good. See also: mung, something, upmung
mung/muhng/ (MIT, 1960) Mash Until No Good.
Sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym "Mung Until No Good" became standard. 1. To makechanges to a file, especially large-scale and irrevocablechanges.
See BLT.
2. To destroy, usually accidentally, occasionally maliciously.The system only mungs things maliciously; this is aconsequence of Finagle's Law.
See scribble, mangle, trash, nuke.
Reports from Usenet suggest that the pronunciation /muhnj/is now usual in speech, but the spelling "mung" is stillcommon in program comments (compare the widespread confusionover the proper spelling of kluge).
3. The kind of beans of which the sprouts are used in Chinesefood. (That's their real name! Mung beans! Really!)
Like many early hacker terms, this one seems to haveoriginated at TMRC; it was already in use there in 1958.Peter Samson (compiler of the original TMRC lexicon) thinks itmay originally have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a relayspring (contact) being twanged. However, it is known thatduring the World Wars, "mung" was army slang for the ersatzcreamed chipped beef better known as "SOS".MUNG
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MUNG➣MUNG Until No Good (recursive version) | MUNG➣Mash Until No Good | MUNG➣Multipurpose Unilateral Nonsense Generator |
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Synonyms for mungnoun erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seedsSynonyms- golden gram
- green gram
- mung bean
- Phaseolus aureus
- Vigna radiata
Related Words- legume
- leguminous plant
- genus Vigna
- Vigna
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