Mong vs. Mung — What's the Difference?

A member of one of the largest subgroups of the Hmong. Many Mong of Laos emigrated to the United States after the Vietnam War.

The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.

A person of Mong ancestry.

To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.

The dialect of Hmong spoken by the Mong. In all senses also called Green Hmong.

To harm, to damage; to destroy.

(dialect) A mingling, mixture, or crowd.

Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (Vigna radiata syn. Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect, bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and edible pods and young sprouts.

(dialect) A muddle or confusion.

Erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

A mongrel dog.

A person with Down's syndrome.

A stupid person.

(obsolete) 'mong.