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单词 crufty
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cruftyadj.

Brit. /ˈkrʌfti/, U.S. /ˈkrəfti/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cruft n.2, -y suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < cruft n.2 + -y suffix1: see discussion at cruft n.2
Computing slang.
Of software: poorly designed, esp. unnecessarily or unintentionally complex; containing redundant code.
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1981 CoEvolution Q. Spring 29/1 Crufty, poorly built, possibly overly complex. ‘This is standard old crufty DEC software.’
1984 J. Varley in S. Williams Hugo & Nebula Award Winners from Asimov's Sci. Fiction (1995) 178 Routines so bletcherous they'd make your skin crawl. Real crufty bagbiters.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando vii. 332 There's lots of crufty twentieth-century bugware kicking around under your shiny new singularity.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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