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Mungo vs Mung - What's the difference?

mungo | mung |

As nouns the difference between mungo and mung

is that mungo is low-quality wool while mung is a type of small bean.

As a verb mung is

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.

mungo

English

Noun

(-)
  • Low-quality wool.

    • See also

    * shoddy * noil ----

    mung

    English

    (wikipedia mung)

    Alternative forms

    * moong, munge

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of small bean.
  • The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or .

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from Mash Until No Good'', or a self referencing acronym, ''Mung Until No Good . Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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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