Hungus

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hungus
/huhng´g@s/
Usage: adj.
Derivation: Perhaps related to slang `humongous'


hungus: /huhng´g@s/ adj.

[perhaps related to slang `humongous'] Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. "TCP is a hungus piece of code." "This is a hungus set of modifications." The Infocom text adventure game Beyond Zork included two monsters called hunguses.

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Source: hungus, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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