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From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

  1. mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.

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.

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

  1. (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.
  2. (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.
  1. ^ “mung”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

mung

  1. leg

mung

  1. Romanization of ꦩꦸꦁ

From Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga, “the bean Phaseolus mungo”).

mung m (Perso-Arabic spelling مُنگ)

  1. pea
  2. bean

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a