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Mung

//mʌŋ// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    seed of the mung bean plant used for food wordnet
  3. 3
    food from the seed of the mung bean plant wordnet
  4. 4
    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 wordnet
  5. 5
    seed of the mung bean plant; used for food wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    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. informal
  2. 2
    To harm, to damage; to destroy. broadly, informal

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

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. Potentially related to mangle.

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