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Munge vs Munch - What's the difference?

munge | munch |

As verbs the difference between munge and munch

is that munge is to transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner while munch is to chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on.

As a noun munch is

a location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.

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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    munch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 17, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992) , passage=At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”}}
  • To eat vigorously or with excitement.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

    Noun

    (es)
  • A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
  • * Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
  • An act of eating.
    • We had a good munch at the chippy.
  • (uncountable, slang) food.
  • (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See .
  • * 1996 , "peh^ - the prat with the hat", What is a "Munch"?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sex.femdom )
    • And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
  • * 2000 , "Anton", BDSM parties and munches'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sadistic )
    • does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches , in greece???

    Related terms

    * muncher * munchies

    See also

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