Burble V.
[from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like
Flame, But Connotes That The Source Is Truly Clueless And
Ineffectual (mere Flamers Can Be Competent).
[from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like
flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and
ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep
contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he
got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault."
This is mainstream slang in some parts of England.
kit n.
[Usenet; poss. fr. DEC slang for a full
software distributio as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source
software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it
can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series
of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by
some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file....