Mungo

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

  Mungo \Mun"go\, n.
     A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by
     deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif.
     those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as
     distinguished from {shoddy}, or the deviled product of
     loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction


     often disregarded.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     Note: Mungo properly signifies the disintegrated rags of
           woolen cloth, as distinguished from those of worsted,
           which form {shoddy}. The distinction is very commonly
           disregarded. --Beck (Draper's Dict.).
           [1913 Webster] Mungoose