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twonkie
/twon'kee/ The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of
sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent
of "chick"); a useless "feature" added to look sexy and
placate a marketroid.
Compare Saturday-night special.
The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of
a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and
C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942
"Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much
anthologised.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-20)
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Nearby terms:
twm « .twmrc « two-binary, one-quaternary « twonkie » two-phase commit » twos complement » two-to-the-N
This article was derived from the Free Online Dictionary of Computers and is available under ther terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
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