Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mungo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mungo \Mun"go\, n.
A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants
of woolen goods.
Note: 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. ).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mungo \Mun"go\, 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.
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