Ming vs Mung - What's the difference?
ming | mung |
To mix, blend, mingle.
(obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
(British, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
(British, slang) To be foul smelling.
(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.
(by extension, informal) to destroy
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As a noun mung is
a type of small bean.As a verb mung is
(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.ming
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mingen, mengen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* minge, mengVerb
- the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].
