Mung

4 definitions found

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

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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}.
  
  

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

  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)