MEGO

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  MEGO \MEGO\, n. [My eyes glaze over.]
     A very dull article, speech, or book, which causes the reader
     or listener to rapidly lose interest; -- often used of
     involved discussions of a technical nature, especially in
     newspapers. [Acronym, Slang]
     [PJC]



From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  MEGO /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes
     Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also
     `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A {handwave} intended to confuse the listener and
     hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit
     to not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at
     senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s.
     2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers,
     often refers not to behavior that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the
     eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat
     of technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MEGO
       
          /me"goh/ or /mee'goh/ ["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes
          Glazeth (sic) Over", attributed to the futurologist Herman
          Kahn] Also "MEGO factor".  1.  A {handwave} intended to
          confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because
          the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what
          is going on.  MEGO is usually directed at senior management by
          engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s.
          2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.  3. Among
          non-hackers, often refers not to behaviour that causes the
          eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which
          may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as
          effectively as by an actual excess of it.