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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The farmer was around 55 or 60, grew mung beans, corn and wheat, and was poor but generous enough to share any money he had, the brother-in-law said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
You'll find alternative pastas made from edamame, brown rice, black beans, lentils, mung beans, and even kelp.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023
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
Turmeric gives the rice-flour batter its golden color; a filling of shrimp, ground pork, mung beans and bean sprouts is smoky from some time in the wok for the sprouts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
Like a mung bean my body stretched up toward the great grow lamp in the sky, and my case was even more significant because I continued to grow in the dark.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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