:mumblage: /muhm'bl*j/ n. The topic of one's mumbling (see
{mumble}). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that
stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion
works, or like "all that crap" when `mumble' is being used as
an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
{mumble}). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that
stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion
works, or like "all that crap" when `mumble' is being used as
an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- mumblage /muhm'bl*j/ n.
The topic of one's mumbling (see
mumble).
"All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff"... - mumble interj.
1. Said when the correct response is too
complicated to enunciate,
or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces... - frotz: /frots/ 1. n. See {frobnitz}. 2. `mumble frotz':
An interjection of mildest disgust. -- The AI Hackers... - topic drift: n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic
fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from
the original subject of discussion (and thus,
from the Subject header of the originating message)... - wango: /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in
a system during some unspecified operation.
Often used in combination with {mumble}. For example... - stir-fried random: alt. `stir-fried mumble' n. Term used for the
best dish of many of those hackers who can cook.
Consists of random fresh veggies and meat wokked... - core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX]
1.
[techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced... - tip of the ice-cube: [IBM] n. The visible part of something small and
insignificant.
Used as an ironic comment in situations where `tip... - casting the runes: n. What a {guru} does when you ask him or
her to run a particular program and type at it because it never
works for anyone else;
esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru...
