BLETCHEROUS


Meaning of BLETCHEROUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /blech'*-r*s/ adj. ]

Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing , cretinous , bagbiting , bogus , and random . The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous . By contrast, something that is `losing' or `bagbiting' may be failing to meet objective criteria. See also bogus and random , which have richer and wider shades of meaning than any of the above.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.