CRUFTY

Meaning of CRUFTY in English

Cross between crusty and crappy. Stale, old, and uninspiring. Example: Professor Van Brummenumphle's lecture on the Kinetic Molecular Theory and Fluffy Bunnies was pretty crufty.

Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012

CRUFTY — [very common; origin unknown; poss. from `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The canonical example is "This is …
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CRUFTY SOFTWARE — ['крафти 'софтвэа] - заумное программное обеспечение(излишне переусложненное)
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CRUFTY PROGRAM — (#sl.) неработоспособная программа
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MONKEY UP — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. …
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MACROLOGY — /mak-rol'*-jee/ 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros , e.g. as part of a large system written in Lisp …
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CRAWLING HORROR — < jargon > Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the …
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CLEAN — 1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in the small", that is, a design or implementation that may …
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BURIED TREASURE — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to …
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TECO
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LIVE FREE OR DIE! — 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's automobile licence plates. 2. A slogan associated with …
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ENGLISH — 1. (Obsolete) The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or …
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MONKEY UP — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. …
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MACROLOGY — 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.g., as part of a large system written in LISP , TECO …
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GAS — [as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust and hatred, implying that gas should be dispensed in generous …
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CRUFT TOGETHER — (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable. Like vt. kluge up , but more pejorative. "There …
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CRUFT — [very common; back-formation from crufty ] 1. n. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; …
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CRAWLING HORROR — Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a …
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CLEAN — Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not …
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BURIED TREASURE — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to …
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TECO — 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'; later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed …
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STONE AGE — 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca. 1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaur …
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LIVE FREE OR DIE! — 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's automobile license plates. 2. A slogan associated with …
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IBM — Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near- infinite number …
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ENGLISH — 1. n. obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable …
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BROKENWINDOWS — Abusive hackerism for the crufty and elephantine X environment on Sun machines; properly called `OpenWindows'.
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PROGRAM — 1. сущ. 1) программа а) проект; план действий to carry out programme, to implement a programme ≈ осуществлять/претворять в жизнь …
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PROGRAM — 1. сущ. 1) программа а) проект; план действий to carry out programme, to implement a programme ≈ осуществлять/претворять в жизнь …
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