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mungoes

mungoes is the plural of mungo.

Meaning of mungo

Noun

mungo (countable and uncountable, plural mungos or mungoes)

  1. 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

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Questions about mungoes

What is mungoes the plural of?
Mungoes is the plural of mungo.

Words near mungoes in the dictionary

  1. Mungins
  2. mungo
  3. mungo bean
  4. mungo beans
  5. Mungo Brush
  6. mungoes
  7. mungoos
  8. mungoose
  9. mungooses
  10. mungos
  11. mungous

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