munge en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /mʌnd͡ʒ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Variant of mung; likely a misconstructed back-formation from munging, munged or munger.
Meanings
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(informal, transitive) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.
2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration:
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(informal, transitive) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.
1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam:
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(informal, qualifier:genealogy, transitive) To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| munged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| munged | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mung | alternative | lexicographic | |
| munging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| munges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (5)
fi pulauttaa (transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner) · de beschädigen (transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner) · tr tahrip etmek (transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner) · de zerstören (transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner) · tr zarar vermek (transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner)