bletcherous

2 definitions found

bletcherous - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  bletcherous
  
     /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically
     unappealing.  This word is seldom used of people.  "This
     keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very
     well, or are misplaced.)  The term bletcherous applies to
     the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for
     cretinous.  By contrast, something that is "losing" or
     "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

bletcherous - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  bletcherous
   /blech'@.r@s/, adj.
  
     Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word
     is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps
  the
     keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing,
     cretinous, bagbiting, bogus, and random. The term
     bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described;
     similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is losing or
     bagbiting may be failing to meet objective criteria. See also bogus
     and random, which have richer and wider shades of meaning than any
     of the above.