/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 ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=BLT">BLT. 2. To destroy, usually accidentally, occasionally maliciously. The system only mungs things maliciously this is a consequence of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Finagle' s Law">Finagle' s Law. See ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=scribble">scribble, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=mangle">mangle, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=trash">trash, ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=stealthportal">stealthportal. Reports from ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">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 ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=kluge">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 ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=TMRC">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". [ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1994-12-02)

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