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 us ed in Chinese food. (That' s their real name! Mung beans! Really!) Like many early hacker terms, this one seems to have originat ed 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 twang ed. However, it is known that during the World Wars, "mung" was army slang for the ersatz cream ed chipp ed 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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