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baitware

noun

Etymology

From bait + -ware.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to cleave, split, separate”
  2. derived from *baitō✻ — “that which is bitten, bait”
  3. derived from beita — “food, bait”
  4. inherited from bayte
  5. formed as baitware — “bait + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Freeware of deliberately poor quality with some, but generally not all, of the features…

    Freeware of deliberately poor quality with some, but generally not all, of the features of a software application, intended to entice those who download the freeware to buy the complete application.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baitware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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