MUNG

mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus

(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

mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, moong, mash bean, munggo, monggo, green soy, green bean

(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

mung (plural mungs)

A type of small bean.

The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.

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.

Verb

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

(computing, informal) 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.

(by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Source: Wiktionary


Mung, n. Etym: [Hind. m.] (Bot.)

Definition: Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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15 April 2025

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(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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