May 15, 2003

dogwash

/dog´wosh/

[From a quip in the ‘urgency’ field of a very optional software change request, ca.: 1982. It was something like Urgency: Wash your dog first.]

1. n. A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work.

2. v. To engage in such a project. Many games and much freeware get written this way.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:50 AM

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