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Verbage /ver'b*j/ N. A Deliberate Misspelling And Mispronunciation Of Verbiage That Assimilates It To The Word `garbage'.
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verbage /ver'b*j/ n.
A deliberate misspelling and
mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word
`garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than
`verbiage'.
Related:
verbage: /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of {verbiage} that assimilates it to the word `garbage'.
Compare {content-free}. More pejorative than `verbiage'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
flamage /flay'm*j/ n. [very common] Flaming verbiage, esp.
high-noise, low-signal postings to Usenet or other electronic fora....
flamage: /flay'm*j/ n. Flaming verbiage, esp. high-noise, low-signal postings to {USENET} or other electronic {fora}.
Often in the phrase `the usual flamage'. `Flaming' is the act itself...
verbiage n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation.
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject....
verbiage: n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {{documentation}}.
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject....
Internet Exploiter n. Another common name-of-insult for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's overweight Web Browse
more hostile than Internet Exploder. Reflects widespread hostility to Microsoft and a sense that it is seeking to hijack, monopolize, and corrupt the Internet....
Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage. -- Grammar rules for the unenlightened
legalese n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard
ext that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a language lawyer to suits, and situations in which hackers generally get the short end of the stick....
lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....