A character on the cartoon show Heathcliff. Mungo was a very fat grey cat who was sort of slow. He wore a red cap and a red shirt. He was a blatant communist, despite the fact that Heathcliff himself was a democrat.

Mun"go (?), n.

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. ).

 

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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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