May 15, 2003

spungle

n.

[Durham, UK; portmanteau, spangle + bungle] A spangle of no actual usefulness. Example: Roger the Bent Paperclip in Microsoft Word '98. A spungle's only virtue is that it looks pretty, unless you find creeping featurism ugly.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:28 AM

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