[Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and
wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by
contrast with, three less common terms — Bad and Right (a kludge,
something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other
attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms
entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from
elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
Evil and Bad and Wrong
(abbreviated EBW) is reported from
there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo
for Bad and Wrong
. Consequently, B&W is actually
Bad and Right
, G&R = Good and Wrong
, and
G&W = Good and Right
. Compare
evil and rude,
Good Thing, Bad Thing.