Mung
/mʌŋ/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts. countable, uncountable
- 2 seed of the mung bean plant used for food wordnet
- 3 food from the seed of the mung bean plant wordnet
- 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 seed of the mung bean plant; used for food wordnet
Verb
- 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 To harm, to damage; to destroy. broadly, informal
Example
More examples"Japan’s "yōkan" is a dessert made of sweetened mung beans."
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.