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munge /muhnj/ vt.
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 nmeaning "to wipe (a person's nose)".
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