Bletcherous

2 definitions found

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

  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.
  
  

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

  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}]