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cruftware

noun

Etymology

From cruft + -ware.

  1. derived from villūtus — “having shaggy hair”
  2. derived from velu — “hairy, furry”
  3. derived from vluwe
  4. compounded as cruft — “crust + fluff”
  5. formed as cruftware — “cruft + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Redundant, old or improperly written software code, especially that which accumulates…

    Redundant, old or improperly written software code, especially that which accumulates over time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cruftware. 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