mungo
mʌŋɡoʊ
Definitions
1. noun
A type of bean or the person or thing that is being referred to in a children’s song ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’.
“The nursery rhyme mentions a pie ‘as big as a plate’ filled with ‘tart of a pig and a plum pie, a pint of a pickled herring, a pound of a potted salmon, and a peck of a pickled pease, and a pie filled with a pungo of plums.’”