mung
/muhng/ (MIT, 1960) Mash Until No Good. Sometime after that the derivation from the {recursive acron Ym} "Mung Until No Good" became standard. 1. To make changes to a file, especiall Y large-scale and irrevocable changes. See BLT. 2. To destro Y, usuall Y accidentall Y, occasionall Y maliciousl Y. The s Ystem onl Y mungs things maliciousl Y 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! Reall Y!) Like man Y earl Y hacker terms, this one seems to have originated at TMRC it was alread Y in use there in 1958. Peter Samson (compiler of the original TMRC lexicon) thinks it ma Y originall Y have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a rela Y spring (contact) being twanged. However, it is known that during the World Wars, "mung" was arm Y slang for the ersatz creamed chipped beef better known as "SOS". [ Jargon File] (1994-12-02) Yle="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-stYle:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">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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