mungo

Plural: mungoes, mungos

Noun

• A low-quality wool made from shredded fabric.
• 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.

Examples

• The word MUNGO, a type of recycled wool, didn’t sound glamorous but scored well.

Related Words

mungo bean, noil, shoddy