资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mung \Mung\, n. [Hind. m?ng.] (Bot.)
   Green gram, a kind of pulse ({Phaseolus Mungo}), grown for
   food in British India. --Balfour (Cyc. of India).

资料来源 : WordNet®

mung
     n : erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of
         India and Indonesia and United States for forage and
         especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts
         used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus
         Phaseolus [syn: {mung bean}, {green gram}, {golden gram},
          {Vigna radiata}, {Phaseolus aureus}]

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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}, {nuke}.
     
        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!  Really!)
     
        Like many early hacker terms, this one seems to have
        originated 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 twanged.  However, it is known that
        during the World Wars, "mung" was army slang for the ersatz
        creamed chipped beef better known as "SOS".
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1994-12-02)