noun
mung
muhng
noun
1
A small green legume (the mung bean) grown for its edible sprouts and seeds.
"She added mung bean sprouts to the stir-fry."
verb
1
To damage or corrupt data through repeated small changes that eventually destroy it.
"A bad script munged half the database before anyone noticed."
How to Use Mung
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither the mung bean (used for sprouts), or, in tech slang, to mess up data through repeated edits.
When to use it
The data-corruption sense is programmer jargon, not standard English.
Word Forms
munged past tense, mungs plural, mungs singular
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Etymology
The bean sense traces through Hindi mūṅg from Sanskrit mudga; the "corrupt data" sense arose separately in computing slang.
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