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mungo
CIDE DICTIONARY
mungo, n.
A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy , or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction often disregarded. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
" Mungo properly signifies the disintegrated rags of woolen cloth, as distinguished from those of worsted, which form shoddy . The distinction is very commonly disregarded." Beck (Draper's Dict.). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mungo, n. (pl. -os) the short fibres recovered from heavily felted material.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. uncert.
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