mungo Meaning, Definition & Usage

Mun"go noun
Definitions
  1. A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods. ✍ 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. ).

Webster 1913