1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole
program.
3. To modify data in some way the speaker doesn't need to go into
right now or cannot describe succinctly (compare {mumble}).
4. To add {spamblock} to an email address.
This term is often confused with {mung}, which probably was derived
from it. However, it also appears the word munge was in common use in
Scotland in the 1940s, and in Yorkshire in the 1950s, as a verb,
meaning to munch up into a masticated mess, and as a noun, meaning
the result of munging something up (the parallel with the
{kluge}/{kludge} pair is amusing). The OED reports "munge" as an
archaic verb meaning "to wipe (a person's nose)".
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {mung}{spamblock}]