mungo

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mungo (countable and uncountable, plural mungos or mungoes)

1. A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
   • 1918, Henry J. Spooner, Wealth from Waste: Elimination of Waste A World Problem, George Routledge & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:

     Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.

• mungo bean
• shoddy
• noil

• Muong

From German Mungo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuŋːo/, [ˈmuŋːo̞]
• Rhymes: -uŋːo
• Syllabification^(key): mun‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): mun‧go

mungo

1. mongoose of the genus Herpestes
2. Indian grey mongoose, Urva edwardsii formerly Herpestes edwardsii

• “mungo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

mungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mungere

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg) (possibly via Indo-Portuguese), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga). Compare Spanish mongo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuŋ.ɡu/

mungo

1. mung bean

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “mungo”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 490
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m

• IPA^(key): /múːnɡɔ/

mȗngo m anim

1. mongoose (a small carnivore of the family Herpesidae)