mungo

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  1. Artificial short-staple wool formed by tearing to pieces and disintegrating old woolen fabrics, as old clothes. The cloth made from it when mixed with a little fresh wool has a fine warm appearance, but from the shortness of the fiber is weak and tender. See shoddy.
  2. An East Indian plant, Ophiorhiza Mungos, whose roots are a reputed cure for snake-bites. See mongoos.

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  • The Number One DJ Collection - 70s / 1970s vol 01 / 08 - mungo jerry - in the summertime. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • The Number One DJ Collection - 70s / 1970s vol 01 / 17 - mungo jerry - baby jump. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Next he'll tell us mungo cheese gives girls clear skin. —  Ace of Spades HQ
  • I milk io mungo you (s.) milk tu mungi he / she milks lui / lei munge we milk noi mungiamo you (pl.) milk voi mungete they milk loro mungono —  The New Yorker
  • Homeless residence of San Fran looking for mungo, somebody tell them "thars no copper in them thar lines" —  Latest Articles
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  1. Perhaps from *mung, mong, mang, a mixture, as in mongcorn, mungcorn. But the termination, in this view, is not explained. The early history is not known. Some conjecture that the word is due to a proper name, Mungo. This is a Scots name.
  2. Cf. New Latin Mungos, the specific name of the plant: see Mungos.
 

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