brain-damaged
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
brain-damaged (comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)
Etymology 2[edit]
Generalization of “Honeywell Brain Damage” (HBD), a notional disease invented to explain certain poor design decisions in Honeywell Multics.[1]
Adjective[edit]
brain-damaged (comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)
Usage notes[edit]
- This is a harsh insult, suggesting that the mistake is so egregious that only a brain-damaged person could have committed it.
References[edit]
- ^ “brain-damaged”, in The Jargon File, 2008 June 27 (last accessed)