crapware
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap Proto-West Germanic *samftī Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English crapware From crap + -ware.
- derived from -ware English crapware From crap + -ware
- derived from krappender
Definitions
Software that is useless or of poor quality.
- Can it download and execute dangerous code, including viruses and really buggy crapware? No problem.
- MS [Microsoft] “crapware,” as some call it, is widely disparaged as inelegant and buggy.
- Malware distributors will often use them to try to con you into downloading their crapware.
Unwanted software that comes pre-installed with personal computers or mobile devices.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crapware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA