mung
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to make dirty (often followed by up).
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to spoil, ruin, or destroy (often followed by up).
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Computers.
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to make incremental changes to (a file, system, etc.), eventually ruining or destroying the original.
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to modify (an email address) in an easily reversible way, to avoid spam.
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verb
Etymology
Origin of mung
First recorded in 1945–50; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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To make a banh tet, banana leaves are lined with rice, soft mung beans and pork belly and rolled into a tight log, which is then wrapped in the leaves and tied up with strings.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024
Her favorite part of the holiday: cooking traditional dishes like rice cakes, which are filled with mushed mung beans, meat and sticky rice then wrapped in banana leaf.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023
Instead, snow skin mooncakes incorporate glutinous rice flour, sugar and water, and use simple fillings, such as custard and mung bean paste.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
Goodbye Wonder Bread and TV dinners, hello mung beans and carob.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2022
The same girl who had never so much as drawn her own bath was now sprouting mung beans in jars with holes punched in their screw lids.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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