different between munge vs munch

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Verb

munge (third-person singular simple present munges, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

1. (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
   • 2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

     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.

2. (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
   • 1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam

     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.

3. (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.

Alternative forms

• mung

Derived terms

• data munging

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -und?e

Verb

munge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mungere

English

Etymology

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch). Compare also Old French mangier, mengier (“to bite; eat”), of similar sound and meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

munch (third-person singular simple present munches, present participle munching, simple past and past participle munched)

1. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed — often used with on.

2. To eat vigorously or with excitement.

Derived terms

• muncher
• munchy

Translations

Noun

munch (plural munches)

1. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
   • Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
2. (colloquial) An act of eating.

   We had a good munch at the chippy.

3. (uncountable, slang) Food.
4. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See Munch (BDSM).
   • 1996, "peh^ - the prat with the hat", What is a "Munch"? (on newsgroup alt.sex.femdom)

     And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)

   • 2000, "Anton", BDSM parties and munches (on newsgroup alt.sadistic)

     does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• muench, munnech

Etymology

From Middle High German manec, from Old High German manag. Cognate with German manch, Dutch menig, English many.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun?/

Pronoun

munch

1. many

Declension

Derived terms

• munchmol