[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mung \mung\ mu^ng, n. hind. m=ung. bot.
   green gram, a kind of legume pulse vigna radiata syn.
   phaseolus aureus, syn. phaseolus mungo, grown for food
   in british india; called also gram, mung bean, chinese
   mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. it is an erect,
   bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and
   edible pods and young sprouts. --balfour cyc. of india.
   1913 webster
see also:
vigna radiata phaseolus aureus phaseolus mungo gram mung bean chinese mung bean 
green-seeded mung bean 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mung
     n : 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 syn: mung bean, green gram, golden gram,
          vigna radiata, phaseolus aureus
see also:
mung bean green gram golden gram vigna radiata phaseolus aureus 

[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

mung /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. see blt. 2. to destroy, usually
   accidentally, occasionally maliciously. the system only mungs things
   maliciously; this is a consequence 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
   still common in program comments compare the widespread confusion over
   the proper spelling of kluge. 3. in the wake of the spam epidemics
   of the 1990s, mung is now commonly used to describe the act of modifying
   an email address in a sig block in a way that human beings can readily
   reverse but that will fool an address harvester. example:
   johnnospamsmith@isp.net. 4. the kind of beans the sprouts of which are
   used in chinese food. that's their real name mung beans really

   like many early hacker terms, this one seems to have originated at
   tmrc; it was already in use there in 1958. peter samson compiler of
   the original tmrc lexicon thinks it may originally have been
   onomatopoeic for the sound of a relay spring contact being twanged.
   however, it is known that during the world wars, `mung' was u.s. army
   slang for the ersatz creamed chipped beef better known as `sos', and it
   seems quite likely that the word in fact goes back to scots-dialect
   munge.


see also:
recursive acronym munge blt finagle's law scribble mangle 
trash nuke usenet kluge spam 
address harvester tmrc 

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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 make
        changes to a file, especially large-scale and irrevocable
        changes.
     
        see blt.
     
        2. to destroy, usually accidentally, occasionally maliciously.
        the system only mungs things maliciously; this is a
        consequence 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 still
        common in program comments compare the widespread confusion
        over the proper spelling of kluge.
     
        3. the kind of beans of which the sprouts are used in chinese
        food.  that's their real name  mung beans  really
     
        like many early hacker terms, this one seems to have
        originated at tmrc; it was already in use there in 1958.
        peter samson compiler of the original tmrc lexicon thinks it
        may originally have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a relay
        spring contact being twanged.  however, it is known that
        during the world wars, "mung" was army slang for the ersatz
        creamed chipped beef better known as "sos".
     
        jargon file
     
        1994-12-02
     
     
see also:
recursive acronym blt finagle's law scribble mangle trash 
nuke usenet kluge tmrc jargon file 

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