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• baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
  gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....
• ococo: adj. {Baroque} in the extreme. Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
  Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe....
• elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
  An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• heavyweight: adj. High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive
  featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• heavyweight adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque
  code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time....
• ococo adj. Terminally baroque. Used to imply that a program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the underlying design.
  Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe....
• monstrosity 1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy monstrosity.
  See also second-system effect and baroque....