mung
/muhng/ (MIT, 1960) Mash Until No Good. Sometime after that the derivation from the {recursive acronym} "Mung Until No Good" became standard. 1. To make changes to a file, especially 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, stealthportal. 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. The kind of beans of which the sprouts 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 army slang for the ersatz creamed chipped beef better known as "SOS". [ Jargon File] (1994-12-02) In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ acronym ] [ ad ] [ af ] [ ag ] [ al ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ ash ] [ at ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ B ] [ b ] [ bb ] [ be ] [ bean ] [ BLT ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ Ch ] [ ch ] [ chip ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ COM ] [ COMment ] [ COMpiler ] [ con ] [ cons ] [ cr ] [ cron ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ Finagle' s Law ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ fusion ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ Go ] [ gr ] [ gs ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hang ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ icon ] [ id ] [ il ] [ in ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ kluge ] [ kn ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lr ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ mangle ] [ MIT ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ ms ] [ Mu ] [ mu ] [ my ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ net ] [ nf ] [ ng ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ stealthportal ] [ nym ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ OS ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ port ] [ portal ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ pron ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ real ] [ recursive ] [ recursive acronym ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ scribble ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sl ] [ SO ] [ so ] [ SOS ] [ sound ] [ spec ] [ spell ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ system ] [ T ] [ th ] [ TM ] [ TMRC ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ trash ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ tz ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ us ] [ Usenet ] [ va ] [ ve ]
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