crufty
/kruhf'tee/ [Possibly from "crusty"] 1. Poorly built, possibly
over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard
old crufty {DEC} software". In fact, one fanciful theory of
the origin of "crufty" holds that it was originally a mutation
of "crusty" applied to DEC software so old that the "s"
characters were tall and skinny, looking more like "f"
characters.
2. (Sometimes spelled "cruftie") A small crufty object (see
{frob}); often one that doesn't fit well into the scheme of
things. "A {Lisp} {property list} is a good place to store
crufties (or, collectively, {random} cruft)."
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