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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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