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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>munge</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mung.html" title="mung"/><link rel="next" href="Murphys-Law.html" title="Murphy's Law"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">munge</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mung.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Murphys-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="munge"/><dt xmlns="" id="munge"><b>munge</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/muhnj/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole
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program. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. To modify data in some way the speaker doesn't need to go into
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right now or cannot describe succinctly (compare
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<a href="mumble.html"><i class="glossterm">mumble</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. To add <a href="../S/spamblock.html"><i class="glossterm">spamblock</i></a> to an email
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address.</p></dd><dd><p>This term is often confused with <a href="mung.html"><i class="glossterm">mung</i></a>, which
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probably was derived from it. However, it also appears the word <span class="firstterm">munge</span> was in common use in Scotland in the
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1940s, and in Yorkshire in the 1950s, as a verb, meaning to munch up into a
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masticated mess, and as a noun, meaning the result of munging something up
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(the parallel with the
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<a href="../K/kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a>/<a href="../K/kludge.html"><i class="glossterm">kludge</i></a> pair is
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amusing). The OED reports “<span class="quote">munge</span>” as an archaic verb meaning
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“<span class="quote">to wipe (a person's nose)</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mung.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Murphys-Law.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mung </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Murphy's Law</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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