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mungo en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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. 1918, Henry J. Spooner, Wealth from Waste: Elimination of Waste A World Problem, George Routledge & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:

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shoddy · noil

mungo en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of mung (“mung bean”).
   alt of mung

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mungo bean