mung

Meanings

Noun

• The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus (species).

Verb

• To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
• To harm, to damage; to destroy.

Origin

• From Hindi मूँग, from Sanskrit मुद्ग.
• Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.