May 15, 2003

hungus

/huhng´g@s/ adj.

[perhaps related to slang ‘humongous’] Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. TCP is a hungus piece of code. This is a hungus set of modifications. The Infocom text adventure game Beyond Zork included two monsters called hunguses.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:43 AM

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