mungo
mungo noun: a material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. Also the obsolete form of mung.
Noun
mungo (countable and uncountable, plural mungos or mungoes)
- A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
- Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.1918, Henry J. Spooner, Wealth from Waste: Elimination of Waste A World Problem, George Routledge & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200
Proper noun capitalized: Mungo
Mungo (plural Mungos)
- A surname.
- A male given name.
- The fever left his body, and he rose to stotter about the doors; but he was still in his torments, and the mercy-seat was far from him. At last in the back end of the year came Mungo Muirhead to Caulds to the autumn communion, and nothing would serve him but he must try his hand at the storm-tossed...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- A locality in the Balranald council area, south-western New South Wales, Australia.
Also used as
mungo is also the obsolete form of mung.
Forms of mungo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mungos |
| plural | mungoes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Mungos |
Origin of mungo
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Mungo. This was the nickname of Kentigern, better known as Saint Mungo, the founder and patron saint of Glasgow, and possibly comes from the Cumbric equivalent of the Welsh fy nghu (“my dear (one)”).
Words formed from mungo
Phrases with mungo
Questions about mungo
- What does mungo mean?
- Mungo means a material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
- What part of speech is mungo?
- Mungo can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of mungo?
- The plural of mungo is mungos.
Words near mungo in the dictionary
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