Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
moong .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (
Vigna radiata syn.Phaseolus aureus , syn.Phaseolus Mungo ), grown for food in British India; called alsogram ,mung bean ,Chinese mung bean , andgreen-seeded mung bean . It is an erect, bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and edible pods and young sprouts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb computing 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.
- verb by extension to destroy
- noun A type of small
bean . - noun A type of
plant cultivated for itssprouts Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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 Phaseolus
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sad to read the excruciating mung from the overwhelming amount of dems responding to these blogs.
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In fact, kicharee, when made more into a thin porridge, could be called mung bean congee since the type of congee one makes is identified by the accompanying food or herb with which it is prepared.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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January 25th, 2008 at 2: 44 pm jokerswild says: it is like a fuckin mung-fest over there today. if it’s not heath ledger’s corpse it’s britney’s. whadayamean she’s not dead? are you sure?
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The verb is actually "mung" pronounced munj, and if you need some munging you need a munger.
What is a munger? 2004
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And dang those darn smelly mexicans!!! oh and never look up the word "mung" on google images.
maybmemorys Diary Entry maybmemorys 2004
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Legumes such as mung beans, haricot beans and cowpeas can also be germinated.
10: Food science 1996
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The Hmong (pronounced "mung") had aligned themselves with the U.S. in its secret war in Laos, and had to flee afterward as refugees.
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The Hmong (pronounced "mung") had aligned themselves with the U.S. in its secret war in Laos.
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a doctoress and rain-maker, who presented a large basket of soroko, or, as they call it in India, "mung," and a fowl.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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Adding a tsp of lentils while cooking them (split mung beans are the best to start with) used to make them more flavourful and add protein to the diet.
Your turn! kittenpie 2009
chained_bear commented on the word mung
Wow. I looked all over the place for a definition that would merit John's using this term as a synonym for "gunk," and finally had to go look it up in the OED.
To me, "mung" is just a kind of plant that you get mung bean sprouts from. I kind of like them, even though they're really not made of anything. It's like eating crispy air, though not as crispy air as rice cakes.
October 26, 2007
missanthropist commented on the word mung
'Chicken feed'. Is that close enough for you C_B?
July 31, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mung
Not sure what you're asking... 'is "chicken feed" close to gunk,' perhaps? If so, I'd say no. I think of bits of dried corn when I think of chicken feed. Or nice crunchy beetles.
July 31, 2008
mgs commented on the word mung
This is also used in computer culture. It appears in the hacker's dictionary. It is a recursive acronym standing for mung until not good. I can mean playing with code or electronics until they break or making something in a very quick and dirty way. I'll just mung something up.
June 11, 2009
mutandis26 commented on the word mung
Dictionary.com gives "/muhng/ vt. (in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'; sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard; but see munge)
1. To make changes to a file, esp. large-scale and irrevocable changes."
July 20, 2009
bilby commented on the word mung
"Only a very small number of 'Dear Rich Bastard' missives actually went out, rather than the 2,000 stated in tellings of this event. (There weren't that many munged entries in the database, after all).
- Barbara Mikkelson, Dear Rich Bastard, snopes.com, cited 17 Sep 2009.
September 17, 2009