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Funge vs Munge - What's the difference?

funge | munge |

As a noun funge

is (obsolete) a fungus.

As a verb munge is

(transitive|computing|informal) to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.

funge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fungus.
  • (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
  • * , II.3.2:
    • Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge  […].
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    munge

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mung

    Verb

  • (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
  • * 2011 , Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
    • As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.
  • (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
  • * 1998 , Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
    • Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.
  • (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.
    • It looks like this record is munged —it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date

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