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• feeping creaturism /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism
  meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• feature creature: [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie] n.
  1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or {taste}....
• feeping creature: [from {feeping creaturism}] n. An unnecessary feature
  a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features....
• creeping featuritis: /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n.
  Variant of {creeping featurism}, with its own spoonerizatio...
• creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
  something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....