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stiffware

noun

Etymology

From stiff + -ware.

  1. inherited from *steypós✻
  2. inherited from *stīfaz✻
  3. inherited from *stīf✻
  4. inherited from stīf
  5. inherited from stiff
  6. formed as stiffware — “stiff + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Software that is inflexible, cannot be customized or upgraded, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stiffware. 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