Mung

Definition: Mung

Mung

Noun

1. Erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus.

Specialty Definition: Mung

Domain	Definition
Computing	Mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'; sometime after that the derivation from the {recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard; but see munge] 1. To make changes to a file, esp. large-scale and irrevocable changes. See BLT. 2. To destroy, usually accidentally, occasionally maliciously. The system only mungs things maliciously; this is a consequence of Finagle's Law. See scribble, mangle, trash, nuke. Reports from Usenet suggest that the pronunciation /muhnj/ is now usual in speech, but the spelling `mung' is still common in program comments (compare the widespread confusion over the proper spelling of kluge). 3. In the wake of the spam epidemics of the 1990s, mung is now commonly used to describe the act of modifying an email address in a sig block in a way that human beings can readily reverse but that will fool an address harvester. Example: johnNOSPAMsmith@isp.net. 4. The kind of beans the sprouts of which are used in Chinese food. (That's their real name! Mung beans! Really!) Like many early hacker terms, this one seems to have originated at TMRC; it was already in use there in 1958. Peter Samson (compiler of the original TMRC lexicon) thinks it may originally have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a relay spring (contact) being twanged. However, it is known that during the World Wars, `mung' was U.S. army slang for the ersatz creamed chipped beef better known as `SOS', and it seems quite likely that the word in fact goes back to Scots-dialect munge. Source: Jargon File.
Slang in 1811	MUNG. To beg. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Mung

Synonyms: golden gram (n), green gram (n), mung bean (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mung

English words defined with "mung": bean sprout ♦ Moong. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mung": backronym ♦ geef, gunch ♦ munge ♦ recursive acronym. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mung

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Oi gwan yue mung (2001)

97 fung lau mung (1994)

Ning mung hoh lok (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mung

Domain	Title
Books	Mung klai nai roi sai (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Mung

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Netherlands	Examples include wheat, pulses (lentils, navy beans, azuki beans and mung beans), glutenous and basmati rice, wild rice, soybeans, amaranth, buckwheat, millet, tomato concentrate, dried fruits (raisins, prunes, apples), popcorn, almonds, sunflower seeds, alfalfa seeds, flax seed, animal feed and maple syrup. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mung

"Mung" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Mung" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mung

Expressions using "mung": Chinese mung bean ♦ mung bean. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mung

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mung bean	48
mung	32
agriculture bean mung	28
bean company list mung	26
mung yoyo	10
mung bean sprouts	8
mung bean recipe	8
bean importer mung	7
bean mung seller	3
bean buyer mung wholesale	3
bean mung sprouting	3
bean extract mung sprouted	2
bean mung nutrition	2
bean mung nuclease	2
alfalfa mung seed	2
chuc moi mung nam	2
mung sex	2
chuen law mung	2
bean mung soup	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mung

Language		Translations for "mung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		jerusalemboenne (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

Dutch		mungoboon (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

Finnish		mungopapu (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

French		haricot velu de la basse Nubie (mung bean), haricot Mungo (mung bean), ambérique (mung bean). (various references)

German		Mungobohne (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean), Mungbohne (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean), Jerusalembohne (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

Italian		fagiolo mungo (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean), fagiolino verde (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

Pig Latin		ungmay

Russian		портить (boggle, contaminate, corrupt, do damage, munge, queer, spoil, tamper, thrash, vitiate, waste, welk). (various references)

Spanish		poroto mung (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean), judía mung (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean), fríjol de oro (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)

Swedish		mungböna (golden gram, green gram, Jerusalem pea, mung bean). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mung

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata. (various references)
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Derivations: Mung

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mung": mungo, mungoose, mungooses, mungos. (additional references)
	Words containing "mung": humungous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mung"

Words ending with "ung": lung, Pung. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Mung

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-m-n-u"
	-1 letter: gnu, gum, gun, mug, mun.
	-2 letters: mu, nu, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "g-m-n-u"
	+1 letter: mungo.
	+2 letters: fuming, gonium, granum, gunman, gunmen, impugn, magnum, muling, mungos, muring, musing, muting, nutmeg, regnum, umping.
	+3 letters: agendum, amusing, augment, bluming, bumming, bumping, culming, dumbing, dumping, fluming, gauming, gumming, gunroom, hegumen, humming, humping, imbuing, impugns, jumping, legumin, lumping, magnums, mahuang, mauling, meouing, mousing, mucking, mudding, muffing, mugging, muggins, mulling, mumming, mumping, munting, mushing, musings, mussing, mustang, musting, mutagen, numbing, nutmegs, organum, pluming, pumping, spuming, summing, tegumen, tumping.
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