mung

See also: mừng and múŋ

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Tamil முங்கு (muṅku), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʊŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊŋ

Noun

mung (plural mungs)

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

Etymology 2

Possibly from 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.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /mʌŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ

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

Amanab

Noun

mung

  1. leg
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