False news. De Vere says, confused, contradictory statements. See Notes and Queries, 11 S. ii. 194.
1844. Mung news:—the heading of an item concerning news a year old.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Sept. 26.
1849. As many of our citizens who intend to go to California may base their arrangements upon the mung news of some of the papers, we conceive it to be our duty to state that most of these letters are fictitious.—N.Y. Express, Feb. 17, 1849 (Bartlett).
