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Munge vs Minge - What's the difference?

munge | minge |

As verbs the difference between munge and minge

is that munge is (transitive|computing|informal) to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner while minge is to mingle; to mix.

As a noun minge is

(british|australia|nz|vulgar|slang) the pubic hair and vulva or minge can be (us|dialect) a small biting fly; a midge.

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

    Derived terms

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    minge

    English

    Etymology 1

    Anglo-Romani, from (etyl) .-->

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably corrupted from (midge).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialect) A small biting fly; a midge.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) mingen, mengen, from (etyl) . More at ming.

    Verb

    (ming)
  • To mingle; to mix.
    • (Webster 1913) ----