mung
mung n 1 :
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 [
synonym : {
mung }, {
mung bean }, {
green gram }, {
golden gram }, {
Vigna radiata }, {
Phaseolus aureus }]
Mung \
Mung \ (
m [
u ^]
ng ),
n . [
Hind .
m [=
u ]
ng .] (
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 ]
/
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 )
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